Ways v. City of Lincoln

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

The City of Lincoln, et al. appeal, and Officer John S. Ways cross-appeals, from a final judgment entered in Ways’ favor in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. In a dual action, Ways, who is of black and American Indian descent, claimed that by permitting numerous offensive racial incidents to occur in the City of Lincoln Police Department (LPD) over the course of his sixteen-year career, his employers and supervisors violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. (Title VII). The defendants in the district court were the City of…