For $50,000, the First Judicial District has resolved a former family court master’s claims that she was discriminated against, among other grounds, because a “less qualified” candidate was hired as the director of children and youth services and because she was not allowed to have a private practice as other family court masters were allowed to do.
Christine Adair, who retired September 7, 2011, and was 60 when she filed her complaint, filed a lawsuit first in state court and then in federal court. In the state lawsuit, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Allan L. Tereshko granted the preliminary objections of the FJD, Court Administrator David Wasson III and Judge Kevin M. Dougherty, the administrative judge of the family division.
