EDDY v. WAFFLE HOUSE, INC.

No. 04-2505.

482 F.3d 674 (2007)

Lavonna EDDY; Vernon Eddy; Kathy Lander; Mark Lander, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Ann Eddy, Plaintiff, v. WAFFLE HOUSE, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 6, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mary Elizabeth Kohart, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellants. Nancy Elizabeth Rafuse, Ashe, Rafuse & Hill, L.L.P., Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellee.

ON BRIEF: Gerald S. Hartman, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. William B. Hill, Jr., Sandra Kim, Ashe, Rafuse & Hill, L.L.P., Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellee.

Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WIDENER wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER concurred. Judge MICHAEL wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This case is an appeal from the final judgment of the U.S. District Court of the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs, an extended black family, stopped to eat at a Waffle House restaurant in Walterboro, South Carolina. There, one of the plaintiffs, Mark Lander, allegedly...

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