Alabama Firefighter Lacks Sex, LGBTQ+, Race, Religion Bias Proof

Mobile, Ala., defeated claims by a homosexual Black female Muslim firefighter that bias drove her termination, not her failure to cover a neck and head tattoo, a federal judge ruled.

The former employee didn’t identify a firefighter outside her protected classes who engaged in similar misconduct and was treated more favorably, the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama said Wednesday in granting summary judgment on the suit’s discrimination claims. She pointed to three co-workers but two had tattoos that weren’t visible when in uniform, the court said.

The third co-worker’s frontal neck tattoo, like Kay’ana Adams’, was ...