United States Fourth Circuit

State human resource official not entitled to qualified immunity for denying extended medical leave to state employee for birth of child based solely on employee's gender.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/26/2001
• Decided 11/07/2001
• Published 11/07/2001

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Phelps Kennedy, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Appellants. Robin R. Cockey, Cockey, Brennan & Maloney, Salisbury, MD, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Betty Stemley Sconion, Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. Hoffman, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Appellants.  Deborah A. Jeon, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Centreville, MD;  Sara L. Mandelbaum, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY, for Appellee.