Florida Agency Fails to Topple Nearly $1 Million Job Bias Award

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice can’t undo a Black female former superintendent’s roughly $925,000 job bias award, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday.

The decision is the latest by a federal appeals court to attempt to reduce the “all too-common confusion” of the role the long-standing McDonnell Douglas test plays in intentional employment discrimination cases, especially the test’s initial prima facie stage. Other courts that have similarly tried to address that confusion, including the Seventh and D.C. circuits. Its prima facie case prong calls for evidence that the worker was a member of a protected class, experienced an adverse job ...