WASHINGTON v. NORMANDY FIRE PROTECTION DIST.

No. 00-3828.

272 F.3d 522 (2001)

Joseph WASHINGTON, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. NORMANDY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, By and Through District and By and Through its Board of Directors, to wit: Brian G. Quinlisk; Robert J. Lee, Sr.; Roy W. Kessler, Individually and in Their Official Capacities, Defendants/Appellants, John Irwin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Shop Steward for Local 2665; Ronald Fritz; Dale Dillingham; Danny Newberry, Individually and in Their Official Capacity as the Grievance Committee for the Normandy Shop of Local 2665; Anthony Glover, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: November 5, 2001.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Althea P. Johns, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff.

Andrew S. Williams, Gregory H. Wolk, Berg & Borgmann, St. Louis, MO, for Normandy Fire Protection District.

Edwin D. Akers, Jr., Gallop & Johnson, St. Louis, MO, for Robert S. Lee, Jr.

Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, HANSEN, Circuit Judge, and BARNES, District Judge.


WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.

In this civil rights action, Brian G. Quinlisk, Roy W. Kessler, and Robert J. Lee (collectively, the directors) appeal from the district court's denial of their motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

I.

Prior to his termination, plaintiff, Joseph Washington, an African-American, served as the Assistant Chief of the Normandy Fire Protection District (District) in St. Louis...

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