Court Allows Coach’s Wrongful Termination Suit to Continue

A federal judge from the Northern District of Illinois has delivered a mixed ruling in a messy legal brouhaha involving a highly decorated high school basketball coach and his athletic director and principal.   Specifically, the court denied the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, letting core aspects of plaintiff Lamont Bryant‘s civil rights lawsuit to continue. Among the key findings of the court was that the defendants’ stated reason for firing Bryant may have been “pretextu