Valentine v. Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Plaintiff Terry Valentine (“Valentine”), a Caucasian male agent employed by the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), brought this reverse discrimination action against the DEA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), and certain individual officials of those agencies alleging that an affirmative action plan adopted by the DEA in 1979 governing the promotion of Hispanic agents within that agency unlawfully discriminated against him and a class of similarly situated persons.1 Valentine…