Porter v. City of Flint

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISQUALIFY ARBITRATOR THOMAS WAUN

AVERN COHN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a racial discrimination case under Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, M.C.L. § 37.2202, and the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Forty-five white police officers complain that the City of Flint and Mayor Donald Williamson (Williamson) unlawfully discriminated against them when Williamson personally selected officers on the basis of race to serve on a newly formed Citizens’ Service Bureau (CSB). At the time of the events in question, 16 plaintiffs…