WALLS v. CITY OF PETERSBURG

No. 89-2357.

895 F.2d 188 (1990)

Teyonda N. WALLS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF PETERSBURG, a Virginia Municipal Corporation; Richard M. Brown, individually and in his official capacity as City Manager of the City of Petersburg; Lawrence R. Nowery, individually and in his official capacity as the Chief of the Bureau of Police of the City of Petersburg, Virginia, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Sheridan Brennan (Stephen W. Bricker, Bremner, Baber & Janus, Richmond, Va., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael Paul Falzone (Charles F. Witthoefft, Dana B. Sykes, Brian K. Jackson, Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, P.C., Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, WIDENER, Circuit Judge, and YOUNG, Senior District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


ERVIN, Chief Judge:

In this action, the plaintiff, Teyonda N. Walls, alleged that the defendants violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in dismissing her from her position with the City of Petersburg ("the City"). Her Title VII cause of action stated that her discharge was racially discriminatory because the City's background questionnaire had a disparate discriminatory impact on blacks...

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