Evelyn Hancock v. City of Oklahoma City, a Municipal Corporation

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Evelyn Hancock, a former employee of the City of Oklahoma City, brought suit against the City in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma; seeking relief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e to 2000e-17 (1982), and also setting forth a pendant state claim based on Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Law authorizing actions for wrongful retaliatory discharge. The City filed an answer and the case was set on a trial calendar.

By agreement of the parties, and the district court, December 22, 1986, was…