Legal Opinion
Smith v. City of East Cleveland
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided September 6, 1973No. C 73-299PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER-
LAMBROS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs claim that practices and restrictions of defendant municipal officials in hiring police- officers in East Cleveland, Ohio, deny blacks and women their rights to equal protection under the law in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Plaintiff represents both a class of all women who have been denied the opportunity to apply for employment as an East Cleveland police officer because they are under 5 feet 8 inches or 150 pounds and a class of all black applicants who took the East Cleveland…
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3Cited by26 opinions
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