Ex-CSL Behring Director’s Evidence ‘Unconvincing,’ Court Says

CSL Behring’s decision to terminate a former associate director over toxic workplace allegations was not discriminatory and a lower court correctly sided with the company, a federal appeals court said.

A lower court properly granted summary judgment to CSL, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said in an unpublished opinion Monday. Former employee Daniel Pekol failed to point to evidence that raises an inference of the biopharmaceutical company’s allegedly discriminatory motive, Judge Thomas L. Ambro wrote. And, the evidence of a conspiracy to fire Pekol was “scarce and unconvincing,” Ambro also said.

• Nothing indicates CSL’s conduct was ...