Lynette Chapman v. The Higbee Company, D/B/A Dillard Department Stores, Inc.

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAUGHTREY, MOORE, COLE, CLAY, and GILMAN, JJ., joined. SUHRHEINRICH, J„ delivered a separate dissenting opinion, in which BOGGS and BATCHELDER, JJ., joined.

OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Chief Circuit Judge.

Lynette Chapman brought suit against the Higbee Company, doing business as Dillard’s Department Store, after a Dillard’s security officer stopped and searched her. Chapman alleges that the stop and search were racially motivated and violated her right to the “full and equal benefit of the law” under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and…