GRATTAN v. BURNETT

No. 82-1924.

710 F.2d 160 (1983)

James R. GRATTAN and Adrienne S. Hedman, Appellants, v. Calvin W. BURNETT, Individually and in his official capacity as President, Coppin State College; J. Carson Dowell, Individually; Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges of Maryland; Edmund C. Mester, Individually; Ronald K. DeSouza, Individually and in his official capacity as Vice-President of Student Affairs, Coppin State College and Harry Hughes, Governor of Maryland, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1983.

Certiorari Granted November 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon H. Laskin, Ellicott City, Md., (Glen M. Fallin, Ellicott City, Md., on brief), for appellants.

Diana G. Motz, Robert A. Zarnoch, Baltimore, Md. (Christine Steiner, Michael A. Anselmi, Asst. Attys. Gen., Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., of Maryland on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, ERVIN, Circuit Judge, and ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.


Certiorari Granted November 14, 1983. See 104 S.Ct. 421.

HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

James Grattan and Adrienne Hedman appeal from an order of the district court dismissing their complaints of race and sex discrimination brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1986, and Article 23 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. The suit was brought against the president of Coppin State College, a public institution of higher education operated...

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