Legal Opinion
Willie ADAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ralph McDOUGAL, Sheriff, Parish of St. Bernard, State of Louisiana, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 10, 1983No. 81-3393PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves alleged violations of the Civil Rights Statutes, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983. 1 The plaintiff, Willie Adams, appeals from a trial court bench ruling that the Sheriff of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, had not discriminated against Adams in the terms and conditions of his employment or in its failure to rehire him. Although the trial court was not clearly erroneous in its factual finding regarding the terms and conditions of Adams’s employment, it used the wrong legal standard in evaluating Adams’s claim that the failure to rehire him was discriminatory,
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