U.S. v. CITY OF MONTGOMERY, ALA.

Civ. A. Nos. 3739-N, 75-19-N.

744 F.Supp. 1074 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Sidney Williams, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The CITY OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants, Gordon M. Ledbetter and John D. Shumway, Defendant-Intervenors. Carolyn JORDAN, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Sandra M. Pierce-Hanna, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. John WILSON, etc., et al., Defendants, Gordon M. Ledbetter and John D. Shumway, Defendant-Intervenors.

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

August 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marybeth Martin, Employment Litigation Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff, U.S.

Thomas M. Goggans, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-intervenors Gordon Ledbetter, et al.

Kenneth L. Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, and Donald V. Watkins, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-intervenors, Sidney Williams, et al.

M. Wayne Sabel, Argo, Enslen, Holloway & Sabel, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-intervenors, Sandra Pierce-Hanna, et al.

Robert C. Black, and Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants John Wilson, Emory Folman, and the City of Montgomery, Ala.

Robert D. Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, Ala., and Montgomery City-County Personnel Bd. and Barbara Montoya.

David M. Smith, Gregory H. Hawley, Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale, Birmingham, Ala. and George B. Azar, Azar & Azar, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants Folmar, Wilson, McGilvray, Eckerman, Cooper & Duffee.

Julian McPhillips, McPhillips, DeBardelaben & Hawthorne, and Gary E. Atchison, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-intervenor Boyd.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

On June 21, 1989, this court preliminarily found that the Chief of Police for the City of Montgomery, Alabama had refused to consider and select one of four police officers as a "deputy chief designate" for the city's police department because of those officers' prior connections with these consolidated cases which over the years have addressed charges of...

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