Legal Opinion
Brown v. City of Fort Lauderdale
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 19, 1991No. Nos. 89-5839, 89-6272PublishedCited by 199 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge:
Appellant Mathas Brown brought this lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 claiming that he was fired from his job as a police officer for the City of Fort Lauderdale because he is black. He sued the City, the police chief and the city manager under each statute, but the district court in two separate orders dismissed all of his claims. The court held that qualified immunity protected the individual defendants from liability under § 1983 and that, after Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, 491 U.S. 164, 109 S.Ct. 2363, 105 L.Ed.2d 132 (1989), a racially…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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