TALBERT v. CITY OF RICHMOND

No. 80-1273.

648 F.2d 925 (1981)

William A. TALBERT, Appellee, v. CITY OF RICHMOND; Jack M. Fulton, individually and in his official capacity as Director of Public Safety of the City of Richmond, Appellants, and Manuel Deese, in his official capacity as City Manager of the City of Richmond; Theodore E. Thornton, individually as Former Director of Personnel of the City of Richmond; Beryl Carter, in her official capacity as Acting Director of the Personnel of the City of Richmond, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Saul, Asst. City Atty., Richmond, Va. (Conard B. Mattox, Jr., City Atty., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Michael S. Shelton, Richmond, Va. (Cohen, Abeloff & Staples, P. C., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before BUTZNER, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and HALL, Circuit Judge.


BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

The City of Richmond, Virginia, and Jack M. Fulton, its Director of Public Safety, appeal from a judgment of the district court that awarded damages and injunctive relief to William A. Talbert, a white police officer, on his complaint that the city and its officials denied him promotion on the basis of his race. Talbert predicates his claim on 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), 1986, and 1988, the fourteenth amendment, and appropriate jurisdictional...

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