Muslim Florida Professor Advances Prayer-Time Retaliation Claim

A former University of Florida professor can pursue allegations that the school retaliated against him when he sought to rearrange his work schedule in order to attend Muslim prayer.

The professor, a doctor whose role included working in the university hospital’s cardiology unit, sufficiently alleged that his requests to accommodate his need to attend Friday prayer at a nearby mosque constituted a protected activity, supporting his retaliation claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida said Wednesday.

Plaintiff Ahmed Hussein joined UF as an associate professor in ...