Legal Opinion
Joey L. Mitchell v. Glenn Chapman
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 23, 2003No. 01-5571PublishedCited by 259 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ECONOMUS, District Judge.
I. OVERVIEW
The Appellant, Joey L. Mitchell (“Appellant” or “Mitchell”), appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to his employer, the United States Postal Service (“USPS”), and three USPS employees, in this action alleging various civil rights claims.
Mitchell advances three arguments on appeal: (1) the district court misapplied the doctrine of claim preclusion as a means to bar the claims alleged against the defendants in the defendants’ official capacities; (2) the district court should have allowed his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims to proceed under…
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