Court Dismisses Discrimination Claim, While Sustaining Pay Disparity Bid

A federal judge from the Middle District of Georgia has granted in part and denied in part a defendant school district’s motion for summary judgment in a case where a plaintiff coach, who was an African-American, sued the district for discrimination after it hired a Caucasian coach for its athletic director position.   While the court viewed the district’s reasons for hiring the other coach as an AD as legitimate and non-discriminatory, it was less charitable with regard to the plaintif