11th Circuit:  Employee Failed To Meet Batson Challenge Burden

(September 8, 2021, 4:09 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A former chicken processing plant employee who sued her employer for race and national origin bias failed to meet her burden when alleging that the defendant’s peremptory strikes of jurors were based on race and when seeking a mistrial or new trial based on a reference to a dismissed defendant as a “prevailing party,” the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 3....