Smith v. State of Ala.

ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Jessie Lorenzo Smith brought this lawsuit alleging that the defendants (the State of Alabama, the Alabama Department of Transportation, and the department’s agents, Jimmy Butts, Ray Bass, Don Arkle, and Rex Bush) discriminated against him because of his race, in violation of the following: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981a, 2000e through 2000e-17; the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, as enforced through 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983; and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1981.…