HARRISON v. METRO GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE

No. 94-6042.

80 F.3d 1107 (1996)

Robert Dale HARRISON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, Defendant-Appellant, Board of Health of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abby R. Rubenfeld, Nashville, TN, Susan S. Garner (argued and briefed), Turner Law Offices, Nashville, TN, for plaintiff-appellee.

John L. Kennedy (briefed), Stephen Nunn (argued and briefed), The Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Department of Law, Nashville, TN, for defendant-appellant.

LIVELY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which RYAN, J., joined. KENNEDY, J. (pp. 1119-20), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.


LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee (Metro), appeals from a judgment of the district court entered on June 14, 1994, finding it in contempt of a 1982 consent decree terminating litigation between the plaintiff, former Metro employee Robert Dale Harrison, and Metro. The district court, which had retained jurisdiction over the case after entering the consent decree, granted Mr. Harrison's motion to...

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