City of Brighton v. Gibson

HOLMES, Judge.

This is a case in which an employee of the City of Brighton, Alabama, sued the City for the payment of back wages and, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1981), claimed damages for the violation of certain constitutional rights.

Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court held that the employee was entitled to her back wages, or salary, and it entered a judgment in her favor in the amount of $2,880. The trial court further found that the employee’s constitutional rights had been violated, and, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its companion statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1981), it…