Brown v. Houser

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM S. DUFFEY, JR., District Judge.

This matter is,before the Court on Magistrate Judge Walter E. Johnson’s Final Report and Recommendation (“R & R”) *1362on Defendants John R. Houser and Cobb County, Georgia’s (“Cobb County”) (together, “Defendants”) First Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [59] and their Second Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [61].

I. BACKGROUND

A. Facts1

This case arises from Plaintiffs Lieutenant James Brown (“Brown”) and Lieutenant Craig Owens’s (“Owens”) (together, “Plaintiffs”) allegation that Defendants failed to promote them to the rank of police…