367 F. Supp. 2d 861 - Phillips v. Mabe’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Griffin v. Breckenridge · United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott · Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny
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“[I]n the instant case, Plaintiff is a party to the contract between himself and the Sheriffs Department.... That Plaintiff does not have a contract with Defendant Mabe, the superintendent, and Defendant Whitt, the former Sheriff, is not important, because tortious interference by Defendants of Plaintiffs ability to contract with the Sheriffs Department satisfies the contract requirement of § 1981.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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