The discrimination case of a former Lowndes County Road Department worker against the county was settled Monday during a final pretrial hearing.
The details of the agreement are to remain confidential as a term of the settlement, Anna Mae Tofsrud”s attorney, Jim Waide of Tupelo, said this morning.
The case was scheduled to go to trial in Oxford May 10.
A U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi judge, in February, denied a request by the county to dismiss the case of Anna Mae Tofsrud, who sued the county for sex discrimination in her February 2008 termination.
Tofsrud was a 13-year employee of the road department and the sole employee at the county”s sign shop, when the shop was closed, for budgetary reasons.
Tofsrud was the only female employee of the road department and alleged she was terminated based on her gender.
Road Manager Ronnie Burns offered Tofsrud other jobs in the road department, but Tofsrud declined other offers, including one as a crew member, for a salary less than her previous salary, court documents assert.
Tofsrud filed a lawsuit against the county on Dec. 9, 2008; the county requested summary judgment, but Chief Judge Mike Mills Thursday found the case “presents a rather classic example of a triable discrimination claim” and denied the motion.
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