Lywanna COOPER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants

JOINER, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal by the City of North Olmsted, et al. (“the City” “or defendant”) from the judgment of the district court in favor of plaintiff-appellee Lywanna Cooper (“Cooper” or “plaintiff”) on her Title VII and § 1981 claims. The City raises two major issues before this court. First, the City challenges the district court’s conclusion that plaintiff was not collaterally es-topped in this suit by a prior administrative decision denying her unemployment compensation, when the administrative decision was affirmed by a state court. Second, the City argues that…