Georgia City Must Face White Ex-Manager’s Racial Firing Claims

A rural Georgia city was wrongly granted dismissal of its former city manager’s claims that a new majority-Black city commission fired him because he’s White, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday.

Roland McCarthy stated plausible race discrimination claims against the city of Cordele under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said. A lower court was off-base in dismissing the suit on the ground that McCarthy failed to allege the newly comprised city commission, which included four Black members and one White member following elections in November 2021, as a whole harbored a ...