Legal Opinion
Bryant v. CEO DeKalb Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 31, 2009No. 06-16591PublishedCited by 458 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In 2001, DeKalb County, Georgia embarked on a wholesale plan to replace its white county managers with African Americans. Three white managers, Becky Kelley, Michael Bryant, and John Drake, proceeding under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, sued the county’s Chief Executive Officer, Vernon Jones, who devised the plan and monitored its execution, and three subordinates who assisted him, Marilyn Boyd Drew, Morris Williams, and Richard Stogner, for discriminating against them on account of their race in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 1 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…
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