United States Fourth Circuit

Male cadets at a state-supported and formerly all-male military college did not act "under color of" state law, within the meaning of 42 USC 1983, when they allegedly engaged in gender-based harassment and discrimination designed to force a female cadet to withdraw from the college.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/25/2001
• Decided 05/07/2001
• Published 05/07/2001

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and RAYMOND A. JACKSON, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Leon Friedman, New York, NY, for Appellant.  Sandra Jane Senn, Sandra J. Senn, P.A., Charleston, SC, for Appellees.  Wendy Raina Johnson Keefer, Barnwell, Whaley, Patterson & Helms, L.L.C., Charleston, SC, for Amicus Curiae.   ON BRIEF:  Richard A. Harpootlian, Robert G. Rikard, Richard A. Harpootlian, P.A., Columbia, SC, for Appellant.  Stephanie P. McDonald, Sandra J. Senn, P.A., Charleston, SC, for Appellees.  M. Dawes Cooke, Jr., Barnwell, Whaley, Patterson & Helms, L.L.C., Charleston, SC, for Amicus Curiae.