Employment & Labor Law
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Total Evidence Cases: 1
A white-non Hispanic male police officer alleged that the county had discriminated against him because of his race, national origin and marital status. The court found that the direct evidence propounded by plaintiff was not a blatant and unambiguous discriminatory remark from which discrimination could be found without the aid of an inference. Additionally, plaintiff failed to produce any evidence that the captain, the individual involved in the disciplinary action report, was the person involved in the decisions to demote him. The court found that the assertion that similarly situated Hispanic sergeants, involved in the same conduct, but not demoted, was not direct evidence of discrimination. The court further found that even if the plaintiff had produced sufficient evidence to allow a reasonable juror to conclude that the supervisors harbored a discriminatory animus, the causal link was broken by the decisions of the independent hearing examiner, county manager and arbiter, all of whom found that the Department acted for legitimate reasons in upholding plaintiff
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