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Ryan’s episode aired days after two former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees filed gender and race discrimination complaints against “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune.”

The episode, which was likely taped weeks in advance, aired days after two former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees filed gender and race discrimination lawsuits against “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune.”

And although the Supreme Court has ruled that race discrimination in juror selection is unconstitutional, the conservative supermajority didn’t care on Tuesday that Williams had been found guilty by a nearly all-white jury or that glaring due-process concerns undergirded his sentence.

Richard Thompson Ford, a Stanford University professor of anti-discrimination law, told Salon that he wasn't "all that surprised" the court dismissed the race discrimination claim because the school's policy on haircuts does not "formally discriminate on the basis of race."

"The claim of race discrimination requires one to accept that certain grooming practices are extraordinarily important to some racial groups — either because they are well suited to natural hair texture or because of their cultural significance," Ford, who's also the author of "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History," said.