Woods v. State of Missouri Department of Mental Health

ORDER

JOHN W. OLIVER, Senior District Judge.

I

This is an action brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983. Currently pending in this case are defendant’s motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and plaintiff’s motion for leave to file a second amended complaint pursuant to Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

II

Defendant raises three separate grounds in its motion to dismiss. First, that plain tiff’s second cause of…