Case: Discrimination/Disparate Treatment (W.D. La.)

A federal district court in Louisiana granted Morehouse Parish School Board’s motion for summary judgment on claims of race discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of a Black 56-year-old physical education teacher who was terminated after allegedly using physical force toward two second-grade students. He failed to show that he was treated less favorably than similarly situated non-Black employees because there was no corroborating evidence that the alleged comparators did anything wrong, while there was corroborating evidence from almost the entire second-grade class of his wrongdoing, the ...