LAMB v. VILLAGE OF BAGLEY

No. 51923.

310 N.W.2d 508 (1981)

Joseph LAMB, Petitioner, Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF BAGLEY, Respondent, State of Minnesota, by Marilyn E. McClure, Commissioner, Department of Human Rights, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Treuer & Day and Margaret Seelye Treuer, Bemidji, for petitioner, appellant.

Ekvall & Rasmussen and James R. Wilson, Bagley, for Village of Bagley.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen. and Mark Levinger, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for State of Minnesota.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


SIMONETT, Justice.

We granted a petition to review the decision of a three-judge district court panel affirming the decision of the hearing examiner that respondent village did not violate Minn.Stat. § 363.03, subd. 1(2) (1980), by discriminating against one of its police officers on the basis of race, nor did the city invoke unfair reprisals against the police officer contrary to subdivision 7 of the same section. We reverse.

Appellant Joseph Lamb,

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