Case: Discrimination/Discharge (S.D. Ala.)

Jan. 16, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

An Alabama federal district court granted the Monroe County Board of Education and its superintendent’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing a Black female director of student services’ Title VII of the Civil Rights Act discrimination and Equal Pay Act claims, including allegations sexual harassment and retaliation, as she failed to rebut the legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for her termination—misappropriarion of federal grant funds, and didn’t establish comparators for her EPA claim.

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