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WILLIAMS v. CITY OF MONTGOMERY

Civ. A. No. 81-323-N.

550 F.Supp. 662 (1982)

Tate WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, v. The CITY OF MONTGOMERY, a municipal corporation; Emory Folmar, individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Montgomery, Alabama; the Fire Department of the City of Montgomery; Jim Sutherland, individually and in his official capacity as Chief of the Fire Department of the City of Montgomery; the Montgomery City-County Personnel Board; Ewell Green, Mrs. Ed Reid, and Charles B. Paterson, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Montgomery City-County Personnel Board, Defendants.

United States, District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

October 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.

J. Bernard Brannan, Jr., and Jim Sutherland, Robert C. Black, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants The City of Montgomery, Emory Folmar, The Fire Dept. of the City of Montgomery.

Robert D. Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants The Montgomery City-County Personnel Board, Ewell Green, Mrs. Ed Reid, and Charles B. Paterson.

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiff Tate Williams, a black person, has brought this cause of action claiming, first, that the defendants, by terminating his employment as a fireperson because he received a felony conviction while retaining two white firepersons also convicted of felonies, denied him equal protection of the law in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and, second, that the defendants by their actions discriminated against...

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