Judge Hands Partial Victory to Former Basketball Coach, Who Sues After Son Fails to Make Baseball Team

A federal judge from the Middle District of Florida has dismissed, in part, a lawsuit brought by a former middle school girls’ basketball coach, Althea Owens, who alleged that her son (E.S.P) suffered discrimination based on race when he tried out for the at Suwannee Middle School baseball team and failed to make the squad. Owens, who made a dual-filed charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Florida Commission on Human Relations after her son failed to make the team,