WATSON v. ARKANSAS NAT. GUARD

No. 86-1639.

886 F.2d 1004 (1989)

John C. WATSON, Appellee, v. ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD, Maj. Gen. Jimmie "Red" Jones, Garnett J. Leonard, Charles S. Rowland, Guy Robinson, Ronald D. Fewell, In Their Individual and Official Capacities, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudell Woods, N. Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

Steve Weaver, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before FAGG and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

John C. Watson seeks, among other things, to have a federal court order his reinstatement to the Arkansas National Guard. He brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment against the Arkansas National Guard and five individuals, all military personnel, alleging that the defendants acted in a racially discriminatory manner in dismissing him from the...

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