Thigpen v. Bibb County, Georgia, Sheriff's Department

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal centers around the challenge of two white police officers to the continued constitutionality of an employment promotion policy adopted in settlement of a prior racial discrimination suit against the Bibb County, Georgia, Sheriffs Department (the “Department”). The officers claim that the promotion policy’s mandate that the Department award fifty percent of all annual promotions to black officers denies them the opportunity to compete for those promotions and thus violates their right to equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment…