Mountain v. Collins

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Tuscaloosa County granting a partial summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The plaintiff, Barbara Woodley Mountain (Mountain), had brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the defendants, as members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tuscaloosa (the Board), had violated her right to freedom of association and her due process rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, by failing to hire her for a position with the City's Victim/Witness Assistance…