April 18, 2022
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday rejected a former fire chief's bid to resurrect her suit accusing a Georgia city of firing her because she is transgender, ruling she had not properly filed a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
May 28, 2021
A Georgia city asked the Eleventh Circuit to back a lower court's dismissal of a discrimination suit brought by its former fire chief, who claimed she was fired because of anti-transgender bias, saying she didn't follow proper procedure before filing the case.
April 15, 2021
A former Georgia city fire chief has urged the Eleventh Circuit to reopen her bias lawsuit, saying the city fired her for being open about her identity as a transgender woman and the district court shouldn't have dropped her suit over a procedural error.
February 26, 2021
The California Supreme Court accepted the Ninth Circuit's invitation to clarify the legal bar plaintiffs must clear to sue for retaliation under state employment law, and the Eleventh Circuit was asked to eye whether a technical error on a fired transgender fire chief's EEOC charge dooms her bias suit. Here, Law360 catches you up on four recent legal developments that flew under the radar.