Woman Trainer Didn’t Show Sex Bias by Agency, 11th Cir. Says (1)

The Eleventh Circuit upheld an Alabama federal court’s decision that a third-party staffing company did not discriminate against an athletic trainer who was transferred from her position at a high school.

The three-judge panel said in a Wednesday ruling that ATI Holdings LLC, a rehabilitation services provider, didn’t violate Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by reassigning a female athletic trainer to a new post and replacing her with a male trainer.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said there was a genuine factual dispute as to whether ATI had sufficient control over the trainer ...