May 31, 2023
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the defeat of a Black former state trooper's suit claiming the Georgia Department of Public Safety slow-walked a misconduct investigation and denied him a promotion because of his race, ruling Wednesday he failed to identify a comparable co-worker who was treated better.
January 05, 2023
The attorney for a Black former Georgia state trooper urged the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a district court ruling that ended his race bias case against the Georgia Department of Public Safety, saying during a hearing Thursday that he was discriminated against during an investigation into allegations that he reported for duty with alcohol in his system in 2017.