Legal Opinion

KENNEDY v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided March 1, 2022No. 2:20-cv-00395Unknown

1Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DAWN KENNEDY, CIVIL ACTION Plaintiff, NO. 20-0395-KSM v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Defendant. MEMORANDUM MARSTON, J. March 1, 2022 Plaintiff Dawn Kennedy claims that Defendant the City of Philadelphia’s Police Department’s practice of using a hair follicle test to determine drug use of its officers disparately impacts African American officers in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Doc. No. 1 ¶ 24.) Kennedy claims the hair follicle test exposes African American officers to a heightened risk of a…

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  3. Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
  4. Ricci v. DeStefanoSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  5. Kelly N. Pryor Warren E. Spivey, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. National Collegiate Athletic AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2002

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