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SHORTT v. COUNTY OF ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA

No. 77-2511.

589 F.2d 779 (1978)

Linda K. Fisher SHORTT, Appellee, v. The COUNTY OF ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Tarr, Asst. County Atty., Arlington, Va. (Jerry K. Emrich, County Atty., Arlington, Va., Charles G. Flinn, Deputy County Atty., Arlington, Va., on brief), for appellant.

John J. Geraghty, Arlington, Va., for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This is a sex discrimination case and is concerned with the employment practices of the police department of the defendant/appellant Arlington County, Virginia. Though it had employed two women for specialized work in the 1950s, the police department had been effectively an all-male police department for many years. In 1971 it determined to broaden its recruitment to include female officers. In embarking upon such new employment practice...

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