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Sandra Sheridan wins appeal of racial discrimination against the State of Florida 

 

In Tallahassee, Florida at the 1st District Court of Appeal, the Court sided with Sandra Sheridan in a lawsuit against the Department of Health claiming racial discrimination. The plaintiff claimed that the dismissal from her job was in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1992, which protects citizens from being fired based upon race.  The state attorneys claimed that Sheridan’s lawsuit was filed too soon and did not give the federal Commission time to find probable cause of her dismissal. Judge  Stephanie Ray wrote that the premature filing did not deprive the Commission of its ability to fulfill its duty. Sheridan’s case will now be considered yet again by the lower court in Leon County.

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