Lilly v. City of Beckley

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

The City of Beckley, West Virginia (Beckley, the City) appeals from a judgment of the district court, 615 F.Supp. 137, that, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., it engaged in illegal “reverse discrimination” when it denied Gary Lilly, a white male, employment as a police officer. We affirm.1

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In January 1974, Gary Calvin Lilly, then a police officer in Oak Hill, West Virginia, applied to become a police officer in Beckley, West Virginia. Lilly is a white male college graduate. At that time, the Beckley…