A Florida county school board has won the latest round of litigation against a construction company that claimed it suffered illegal retaliation when it complained after its bid for a project failed.
A key issue in the case was the role of the Orange County School Board general counsel, Woody Rodriguez. A federal appeals court held that his efforts to collect $40,000 of a bond submitted by the construction company—to challenge its loss of the project—didn’t establish municipal liability for the construction company’s claim that the board was retaliating for the company’s comments about alleged irregularities in the bidding process.
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