Landau | txcourts.gov
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - A former assistant attorney general in Texas recently lost an age discrimination case when an appeals court affirmed a trial court’s ruling that the lawsuit was filed beyond the statute of limitations.
Kim Coogan, who served 19 years as assistant AG in the Law Enforcement Defense Division, sued under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHR) claiming that early in 2017 she was passed over for a promotion, demoted, then asked to resign – all over a matter of five months. She was 51 at the time.
In 2017, Coogan filed discrimination complaints against the OAG with Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Then on June 27, 2019, more than two years after receiving Coogan’s first complaint, the EEOC issued Coogan a right-to-sue letter.