Texas Jobseeker Advances Civil Rights Suit Over Revoked Offer

A would-be detention officer can pursue some discrimination claims in a lawsuit alleging Bexar County, Texas, yanked his job offer after discovering his wife’s Santa Muerte altar.

The applicant, a Catholic, says the county unconstitutionally refused to go through with hiring him because of his association with his wife. He plausibly alleged the sheriff disqualified him “based on his marriage to a devotee of a disfavored religion,” but the failure-to-train and failure-to-discipline portions of his complaint lack sufficient support, the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said Monday.

Plaintiff Luis Rafael Borges received a job offer from ...