Legal Opinion
Joe Oakley v. City of Memphis
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 8, 2008No. 07-6274UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SARGUS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs-Appellants appeal the decision of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee, the City of Memphis, and dismissing Appellants’ discrimination claims. For the reasons that follow, the decision of the district court is affirmed.
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The 40 appellants are a racially mixed group of male and female lieutenants in the Memphis Police Department (“MPD”). Appellants allege that their employer, Ap-pellee, the City of Memphis (“City”), discriminated against them on the basis of gender and race by cancelling a valid, nondiscriminatory…
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