Case: Labor Relations/Military Status (S.D. Fla.)

A reasonable jury could not conclude based on the evidence that the city of Hialeah discriminated against a police officer, who was also a member of the U.S. Army and Florida National Guard, by allegedly not selecting him for a promotion in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, a federal court in Florida ruled. The record was silent as to any discriminatory motive by the decisionmakers who declined to select him, the other candidates all had more numerous and varied assignments in the department than he did, two of the three had greater seniority than the ...