United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-municipality on equal protection-based 42 U.S.C. section 1983, Title VII, and Louisiana constitutional claims involving defendant's failure to hire plaintiffs is reversed in a challenge to a consent decree and defendant's hiring process for firefighters.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2006
• Published 01/26/2006

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pamela R. Jones (argued), Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Pamela Nathan Breedlove (argued), Sharp Henry Cerniglia Colvin Weaver & Hymel, Ansel Martin Stroud, III, Tutt, Stroud & Boredelon, Shreveport, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.