Darryl Jones v. City of Franklin

OPINION

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Darryl Jones, Michael Jones, Anthony Pasley, and Stephen Gibson are black firefighters employed by the City of Franklin, Tennessee. They filed separate complaints in August 2006, alleging that the City failed to promote them because of their race and failed to eliminate a racially hostile work environment. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the City, holding that the hostile-work-environment claims were not administratively exhausted with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and that each of the failure-to-promote…