MENCER v. HAMMONDS

No. 95-6827.

134 F.3d 1066 (1998)

Lurlene G. MENCER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cleveland HAMMONDS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peyton Lacy, Jr., James C. Pennington, Joseph D. King, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Gaile P. Gratton, Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Jon Goldfarb, Robert Wiggins, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and STAGG, Senior District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In this case, a former teacher in the Birmingham, Alabama school system contends that the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools denied her equal protection of the laws, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, when they failed to appoint her principal of an elementary school because of her race and sex.1 Seeking both legal and equitable relief, she has sued the Board and...

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