SCOTUS Won’t Review Florida Agency’s Challenge to Job Bias Test

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a lower court wrongly analyzed the evidence in a former Florida Department of Juvenile Justice superintendent’s race and sex discrimination lawsuit under a “convincing mosaic” proof approach.

The state agency said that approach by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit broke from other circuits and looked past additional aspects of the decades’ old McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green method of proof. No federal circuit other than the Eleventh Circuit has adopted the convincing-mosaic theory as a legal standard that can replace McDonnell Douglas, the department said ...