May 29, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld a Louisiana sheriff's defeat of a suit from a Black deputy who said he was fired for complaining that his white colleagues were treated better than he was, shutting down the retaliation claim more than three years after the appeals court revived it.
October 27, 2020
A Black former deputy sheriff in Louisiana will get another chance to prove he was fired for filing a race bias complaint after the Fifth Circuit found that inconsistencies in the reasons given for his termination mean a jury should weigh in.