United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's section 1983 suit, which alleges that defendant-town unconstitutionally banned her from public dancing, is reversed where her allegations that defendant-Town arbitrarily singled her out are sufficient to support a class-of-one Equal Protection claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2005
• Decided 10/07/2005
• Published 10/07/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and WILLIAMS and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jonathan Drew Sasser, Ellis & Winters, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Sandra Moody King, Russell & King, Asheville, North Carolina;  Larry Bruce Leake, Leake & Scott, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Thomas H. Segars, Ellis & Winters, L.L.P., Cary, North Carolina;  Marc C. Tucker, Smith Moore, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina;  Seth H. Jaffe, American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Legal Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.