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CORLEY v. JACKSON POLICE DEPT.

No. 75-3932.

566 F.2d 994 (1978)

Charlie CORLEY and Levaughn Carter, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees. Charlie CORLEY and Levaughn Carter, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Russell C. DAVIS, Mayor and Commissioner of the City of Jackson, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael Farrell, E. Grady Jolly, John E. Stone, City Atty., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, SIMPSON and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

In this Title VII employment discrimination case,1 Charlie Corley and Levaughn Carter, former officers of the Jackson, Mississippi, Police Department, allege that their discharge from the force was based on their race and their opposition to the Department's discriminatory employment practices. The Jackson Police Department contends that Corley and Carter were discharged solely because they accepted a bribe from...

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