( August 17, 2026, 12:18 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel, in vacating and remanding a South Carolina federal judge’s award of summary judgment, held that an African-American man who was fired from his job as a driver for a recycling company after complaining about racial discrimination provided enough evidence to show genuine issues of material fact about his employer’s characterization of its stated reason for firing him as “belligerent and insubordinate conduct” to support a finding of pretext on a retaliation claim....