The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived race discrimination and retaliation claims of a Black sheriff’s office employee fired for sleeping on the job based on evidence that the office only counseled a white employee for the same behavior.
The plaintiff was a shift supervisor in the dispatch department of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office, where she worked off and on for 17 years. She had three levels of supervision: a lieutenant first-level supervisor, a commander second-level supervisor and the sheriff himself, who was her third-level supervisor.
