Court: Coach’s Gender Discrimination Claim Can Proceed

A federal judge from the District of Connecticut has denied a school district’s motion to dismiss in a case in which it was sued by a male basketball coach, who was fired, and subsequently claimed that his termination was based on his gender.   In so ruling, the court found that plaintiff Richard Palmer had alleged facts alleging discrimination that had “crossed the line from conceivable to plausible.” Palmer, who is African American, was hired by the Town of Darien and the Darien Boa