Legal Opinion
Graves v. Lowery
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 23, 1997No. 96-7277UnknownCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LEWIS, Circuit Judge.
Seven former clerks, who worked in a state judicial district in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (the “Clerks”), brought a sex discrimination suit pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2 et seq., in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which named Dauphin County, among others, as a defendant. The district court dismissed the Clerks’ complaint against Dauphin County pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on the ground that as a matter of law, Dauphin County could not be considered either the…
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