Legal Opinion
Watkins v. Bowden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 18, 1997No. 94-9220PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Per curiam
In this appeal, we affirm the district court’s entry of judgment for appellees Ralph Bowden and DeKalb County, Georgia, on appellant Phyllis Watkins’s constitutional claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
FACTS
On January 15, 1990, Phyllis Watkins, an African-American female, began work as an assistant solicitor (assistant) in the Office of the Solicitor of DeKalb County (the office). 1 Ralph Bowden, solicitor of the county, had hired Watkins the preceding week. Bowden informed Watkins, the only African-American lawyer in the office, that she was subject to a six month probationary period…
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