Cox v. Onondaga County Sheriff's Department

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Onondaga County Sheriffs Department (“Department”) Deputies Steven Cox, Thomas Bingham, Edward Kalin, Michael McCarty, and Robert Scott Feldman appeal from Judge Mordue’s granting of summary judgment dismissing their complaint. That complaint asserted retaliation for their complaints of racial harassment to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (“EEOC”), in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3.

We hold that the Department’s initiation and conduct of an investigation into: (i) the white appellants’ claims of racial harassment alleged to have been generated by…