Legal Opinion
Charvette Williams v. Rodney Herron
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 3, 2012No. 11-2894PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Charvette Williams brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County of Dakota, Nebraska, and former county official Rodney Herron. She alleged defendants committed gender discrimination in violation of her Fourteenth Amendment rights. Herron appeals the district court’s 1 denial of summary judgment, as serting that he was entitled to qualified immunity. We affirm.
I. Background
In January 2007, then Dakota County Chief Deputy Sheriff Rodney Herron hired Charvette Williams as a correctional officer at the Dakota County Jail (DCJ). 2 Herron possessed direct authority…
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