Blue Bird Prevails in Appeal Over Worker’s Race Bias Lawsuit

Blue Bird Corp. was rightly awarded summary judgment in a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by an African-American man who worked as a line shift supervisor at the company’s bus assembly plant because he couldn’t establish a prima facie case of bias, the Eleventh Circuit ruled.

Wayne Jackson, who worked at Blue Bird between 2013 and 2016, sued his former employer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act after he was fired for alleged failures related to medical issues of those he supervised. Jackson couldn’t show a valid “comparator” employee who was treated more favorably, which meant he didn’t establish ...