Parks v. City of Warner Robins, GA

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider for the first time in our circuit whether a city’s anti-nepotism policy denies the fundamental right to marry protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, infringes the fight of intimate association implicit in the First Amendment, or has a disparate impact on women in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth-Amendment. The district court held that the anti-nepotism policy is constitutional. We AFFIRM.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff-appellant Brenda Parks is a Sergeant in the Special Investigative Unit of the Warner…