White v. Office of Public Defender

OPINION

MESSITE, District Judge.

I

Elvira White, an African-American attorney, has sued the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland and certain of its employees alleging discrimination in employment based on race. She contends, among other things, that because she is African American she was excluded from the decision-making process involving the discipline of one of her subordinates in the Prince George’s County Defender’s Office where she worked. She also claims that after she filed a complaint with the EEOC, her employer retaliated against her in a number of ways and on…