Stephen Henry v. Fed. Reserve Bank of Atlanta

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Stephen Henry worked for many years in the Nashville office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In 2010, the bank decided to close the Nashville office, prompting layoffs of nearly all employees in the office by July 31, 2011. Henry was laid off a few months before the office closed (in May 2011) but received full pay and benefits through July 2011. In his view, the bank laid him off two months early based on discrimination against his religious beliefs, prompting him to sue the bank for creating a hostile work environment and for retaliating against him when…