Miami-Dade Defeats Older White Employee’s Biased Firing Lawsuit

A Miami-Dade County policy and legislation director lacked evidence that the performance-based reasons for his termination were really a cover for discrimination against him because he’s White and was 58 years old.

The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruling again rejecting Thomas Davis’ federal race and age discrimination claims after they were revived on appeal found Davis failed to refute too many of the justifications offered by the county for firing him to establish pretext. So even though Davis may have raised disputed fact issues on whether he was replaced by his Black 32-year-old subordinate, a ...