3rd Circuit Partially Reinstates Basketball Referee's Gender Discrimination Suit

PHILADELPHIA - A female basketball referee may proceed with her gender bias claims against several organizations for failing to assign her to boys' games after presenting evidence sufficient for the preliminary stage that those organizations are her employers, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 14 (Tamika Covington v. International Association of Approved Basketball Officials, et al., No. 11-3096, 3rd Cir.; 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 5088). Full story on lexis.com