Hayes v. Allstate Insurance

The plaintiffs filed this civil action alleging the defendant engaged in racial discrimination by omitting most African-American owned businesses from its list of favored body shops in Shelby County, Tennessee. In an order of May 9, 2000, the district court dismissed the action for failure of the plaintiffs to state a cause of action. A judgment embodying that dismissal was entered on May 18, 2000. The plaintiffs filed a motion, under Rules 59 and 60, Fed.R.Civ.P., to set that judgment aside, but that motion was denied in an order entered on July 31, 2000. The plaintiffs filed a notice of…