1st Circuit Panel Finds Muslim School Teacher Failed To Prove Religious Bias

Mealey's (December 6, 2017, 11:12 AM EST) -- BOSTON — A school teacher who converted to Islam the same year she began teaching in a Massachusetts city and alleges that more than a decade later she became the target of hostile treatment after she started wearing a headscarf at work failed to show that the city’s reasons for her adverse employment actions were pretext for discrimination, a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 4 (Debra Cherkaoui v. City of Quincy, No. 16-2304, 1st Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 24423)....