United States Eleventh Circuit

In claims of race discrimination at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, a $17 million award for compensatory and punitive damages is affirmed, where librarians were transferred from their jobs at Central Library to dead-end jobs at branch libraries because of their race.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2003
• Published 06/06/2003

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and RYSKAMP, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• H. Lane Dennard, Jr.,Griffin B. Bell, Lovita T. Tandy, King & Splading, Atlanta, GA, June D. Green, Carmen R. Alexander, Office of the County Attorney, Atlanta, GA, Willie Jake Lovett, Jr., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants., Kelly Jean Beard, Meadows Ichter & Trigg, P.C., Atlanta, GA, Michael J. Bowers, Christopher Scott Anulewicz, Atlanta, GA, Michael B. Terry, Joshua F. Thorpe, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.