A jury threw out a lawsuit filed by a black former employee who alleged Wyeth discriminated against him by denying him promotions, giving him unfair performance reviews and placing him on a performance improvement plan, The Journal-News reports.

The lawsuit by Howard Henry is one of seven race discrimination claims by current and former black employees at Wyeth’s Pearl River, NY, campus. Henry’s was the first to go to trial. The verdict, handed down in US District Court in White Plains, NY, following a two-week trial, also vindicated two Wyeth officials: Walter Wardrop, the strategy leader for engineering and maintenance who was once Henry’s boss; and Michael McDermott, the vice president of site operations.

Wardrop and McDermott were named as defendants in the lawsuit filed by Henry, a chemist and engineer who worked in the section of the company that produces Centrum, the popular vitamin product, until he left in August 2005.