PATTERSON v. GREENWOOD SCHOOL DIST. 50

No. 81-2141.

696 F.2d 293 (1982)

Carolyn F. PATTERSON, Appellee, v. GREENWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT 50, a body politic and corporate, and Henry T. Cole, Administrative Superintendent of School District 50, in his official capacity and personally, and the following named persons who are members of the Board of Trustees of Greenwood School District 50, each of them being made defendants in his or her respective official capacity as Board Members and personally; Mr. James McDonald; Mr. L.B. Adams, Jr.; Mr. Harold Lumley, Jr.; Dr. Travis Stevenson; and Mr. Jack McDowell, personally, who was a member of the Board in 1975, Appellants, and Mr. Richard Stowe; Mrs. Audrey Goodwin, and the following named persons who are now members of the board in their official capacity as Board Members, Mrs. Katherine Martin, Mr. Forest Parker, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Robinson, II, Columbia, S.C. (Robinson, McFadden, Moore & Pope, P.A., Columbia, S.C., Emory Smith, Washington, D.C., William K. Charles, Jr., Charles & Charles, Greenwood, S.C., on brief), for appellants.

James J. Brudney, Washington, D.C. (Michael H. Gottesman, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., Richard Mark Gergel, Medlock & Gergel, Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge, and SPROUSE and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

The Greenwood School District 50 of Greenwood County, South Carolina ("School District"), was the defendant below and is the appellant here. The district court, adopting the findings and conclusions of a magistrate, held that the School District had discriminated against Mrs. Patterson, appellee, on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII. The appellee was one of four persons interviewed for a position of assistant principal for one of the...

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