White Former Miami-Dade Worker Gets Race, Age Bias Case Revived

A former Miami-Dade County, Fla., worker sufficiently alleged that he lost his job because he’s White and was age 59 at the time, a federal appellate court said Thursday, reversing a district judge’s order tossing the case.

The lower court used the wrong standard to evaluate whether the worker could continue litigating his race and age discrimination claims, and his allegations are enough to clear the lower bar that applies at the dismissal stage, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said in an unpublished opinion.

Thomas Davis worked in the county’s audit office as policy and ...