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LILLY v. CITY OF BECKLEY, W. VA.

No. 85-1650.

797 F.2d 191 (1986)

Gary Calvin LILLY, Appellee, v. CITY OF BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA; City of Beckley Police Civil Service Commission; Beckley Police Department, Appellants, and J.C. Higgins; Tim Thompson; Arthur Goldstein; Thomas Durrett; John McCulloch, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Robert Grillo (Gorman, Sheatsley & Hutchison, L.C., Beckley, W. Va., on brief) for appellants.

Keven B. Burgess (Hamilton & Mooney, Oak Hill, W. Va., on brief) for appellee.

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

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

The City of Beckley, West Virginia (Beckley, the City) appeals from a judgment of the district court, 615 F.Supp. 137, that, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., it engaged in illegal "reverse discrimination" when it denied Gary Lilly, a white male, employment as a police officer. We affirm.1

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