Legal Opinion
Parks v. City of Chattanooga
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 16, 2003No. 01-6543PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFMAN, District Judge.
Carlton B. Parks (“Parks”), a former police officer with the Chattanooga Police Department (“Department”), filed suit against both the City of Chattanooga (“City”) and three officers employed by the Department, alleging that he was fired from his job as a patrolman due to his race and in retaliation for having expressed complaints of racial discrimination in the workplace. He further claimed that one of his supervisors created a racially hostile work environment and that the Department violated his due process rights when it allegedly failed to notify him properly of…
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