Legal Opinion
LeEthyl JENKINS and Roosevelt Harrison, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CADDO-BOSSIER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 6, 1978No. 76-1878PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Per curiam
The trial court having rejected plaintiffs’ claims of racial discrimination in connection with their employment, based on 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, and Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, petitioners appeal. We agree with the trial court’s finding that the evidence does not support appellants’ charges of racial discrimination, and we therefore affirm.
The three plaintiffs, all Black, alleged that their employer, the Caddo-Bossier Association for Retarded Children (C-BARC), had discriminated against them on account of their race. C-BARC, a non-profit corporation, operates a sheltered workshop for…
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