The Eleventh Circuit Friday took another stab a clarifying the role of the decades-old McDonnell Douglas proof scheme in job discrimination cases, reviving a Georgia deputy’s lawsuit alleging retaliation for reporting race bias.
The burden-shifting framework the US Supreme Court laid out in the landmark 1973 case wasn’t meant to be the “sine qua non for a plaintiff to survive a summary judgment motion,” a unanimous panel said.
The decision, issued Friday, overturns a lower court ruling rejecting the civil rights suit filed after his dismissal by Iraq-born Arab deputy Ahmed Ismael against Richmond County, Ga., Sheriff Richard Roundtree and ...
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