Legal Opinion
Pears v. Mobile County
District Court, S.D. Alabama
Decided August 7, 2009No. Civil Action 08-0385-WS-BPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
WILLIAM H. STEELE, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment (doc. 50). The Motion has been briefed and is ripe for disposition. 1
I. Background Facts. 2
Plaintiff, Edward Pears, is an African-American male who began working as a court police officer at the Mobile County Courthouse in December 1994. (Pears Dep., at 33-34, 37; Collier Dep., at 117-18.) He was discharged on January 22, 2007 for the stated reason that he had failed a mandatory drug test. (Graddick Deck, ¶ 5; Plaintiffs Exh. 21.) In his Complaint (doc. 1), Pears maintains that…
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