Legal Opinion
Pickering v. City of Atlanta
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided November 4, 1999No. CIV.A.1:98CV2690-MHSPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SHOOB, Senior District Judge.
This employment discrimination and breach of contract action is before the Court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment. For the following reasons, the Court grants the motion.
Background
On April 24, 1997, defendants City of Atlanta and Thomas Pocock, Chief of the City’s Department of Corrections, 1 terminated plaintiff Donna Pickering from her position as a corrections officer after the City physician concluded that she was unfit for regular duty. Plaintiff had been employed by the Department of Corrections for fifteen years. During the last two and…
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