Employee Asks U.S. Supreme Court To Take Up Age Bias Evidence Question

Mealey's (March 1, 2021, 8:08 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court must weigh in on evidentiary issues in an age bias dispute because the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling for Federal Express Co. (FedEx) in a former manager’s age bias and retaliation case after applying its “convincing mosaic” standard of proof creates a circuit split as the Seventh Circuit rejected that standard and other special heightened standards of proof, the former manager argues in his Feb. 8 petition for a writ of certiorari....