Rogers v. Haley

CORRECTED OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

In this lawsuit, plaintiff Robert L. Rogers, a white male employee of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), claims that, in the year 2000, he was de nied a promotion because of his gender; 1 he seeks prospective-injunctive relief under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as enforced through 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2 Under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, “No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” U.S. Const. amend. XIV § 1. “The central…