NICHOLSON v. GEORGIA DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

No. 89-8435.

918 F.2d 145 (1990)

Juanita NICHOLSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, (DHR), James G. Ledbetter, individually and in official capacity as Commissioner, Georgia Dept. of Human Resources, Defendant, Thomas R. Gaines, individually and in his official capacity as Director, DHR Division of Rehabilitative Services, Gene A. Wallace, individually and in his official capacity as Director of Planning Research and Special Projects, DHR Division of Rehabilitative Services, Paula McIntoch, individually and in her official capacity as Director of Management Support Services, DHR Division of Rehabilitative Services, Defendants-Appellants, Jane Shepard, individually and in her official capacity as Director of Quality Assurance and Human Resources Development, DHR Division of Rehabilitation Services, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Shingler, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Alice D. Bonner, Oakley & Bonner, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ANDERSON and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellee Juanita Nicholson, an employee of the Georgia Department of Human Resources ("DHR"), initiated this action against, inter alia, defendants Thomas Gaines, Gene Wallace and Paula McIntosh, several of her superiors at DHR. These defendants raised a defense of qualified immunity. The district court's denial of that defense is the subject of this appeal.

Until July, 1986, Nicholson, along with two male individuals, worked...

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