Legal Opinion
Sims v. Montgomery County Commission
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided June 6, 1991No. Civ. A. 3708-N, 82-717-NPublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
In these two longstanding class-action lawsuits, two groups of officers in the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department charge that the department has again illegally discriminated against them because of their sex and race. 1 In Johnson v. Montgomery County Sheriffs Department, Civil Action No. 82-717-N, Lois Johnson charges on behalf of herself and a class of female officers (the “Johnson class”) that the department has continued to discriminate against them because of their sex. In Sims v. Montgomery County Commission, Civil Action No. 3708-N,…
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