A Mississippi federal district court denied Louisville Municipal School District’s motion for summary judgment on an Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 claim brought by a 71-year-old basketball coach who was rejected for a head boys basketball coach position in favor of a 34-year-old internal candidate, finding genuine issues of material fact as to whether the school’s stated reasons for not hiring him—following an internal hiring policy and the other candidate being more qualified—were pretextual given evidence of age-based comments by the athletic director who had influence in the hiring process.
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