Wallace v. Dunn Const. Co., Inc.

Decision Date06 September 1994
Docket NumberNo. 91-7406,91-7406
Citation32 F.3d 1489
Parties65 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 1440, 2 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 544 Becky WALLACE, Plaintiff, Annette Neal, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DUNN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellant.
CourtU.S. Court of Appeals — Eleventh Circuit

Peyton Lacy, Thomas F. Campbell, Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, AL, for appellant.

Marvin L. Stewart, Jr., Najjar, Denaburg, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

(No. CV 90-983-S), William M. Acker, Jr., Judge.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

(Opinion August 17, 1992

11th Cir., 1992, 968 F.2d 1174)

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH, HATCHETT, ANDERSON, EDMONDSON, COX, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES and BARKETT, Circuit Judges. *

BY THE COURT:

A member of this court in active service having requested a poll on the suggestion of rehearing en banc and a majority of the judges in this court in active service having voted in favor thereof,

IT IS ORDERED that the above cause shall be reheard by this court sitting en banc. The previous panel opinion is hereby VACATED.

* Senior U.S. Circuit Judge John C. Godbold has elected to participate in further proceedings in this matter pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 46(c).

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  • McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • January 23, 1995
    ...Division, 985 F.2d 364 (CA7 1993); Wallace v. Dunn Construction Co., 968 F.2d 1174 (CA11 1992), vacated pending rehearing en banc, 32 F.3d 1489 (1994). We now We shall assume, as summary judgment procedures require us to assume, that the sole reason for McKennon's initial discharge was her ......
  • Quillen v. American Tobacco Co.
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Middle District of Alabama
    • January 25, 1995
    ...upon by the defendant, Wallace v. Dunn Const. Co., Inc., 968 F.2d 1174 (11th Cir.1992), vacated and rehearing granted en banc, 32 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir.1994). Although it is true that in Wallace the court held that after-acquired information could be used to prevent prospective relief to a pl......
  • Carr v. Woodbury County Juvenile Detention Center
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Northern District of West Virginia
    • November 23, 1995
    ...Div., 985 F.2d 364 (7th Cir.1993); Wallace v. Dunn Constr. Co., 968 F.2d 1174 (11th Cir.1992), vacated pending reh'g en banc, 32 F.3d 1489 (1994). The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals explained the split as Some circuits held that an after-acquired motive for an otherwise discriminatory acti......
  • Prescott v. Independent Life and Acc. Ins. Co.
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Middle District of Alabama
    • February 8, 1995
    ...(emphasis added)); Wallace v. Dunn Const. Co., Inc. 968 F.2d 1174 (11th Cir.1992), vacated and rehearing granted en banc, 32 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir.1994). Therefore, if an employer can show the plaintiff would not have been hired, or would have been terminated, if the employer had possessed th......
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  • Permitting After-Acquired Evidence of Employee Qualifications Perpetuating a McKennon Distinction Without a Difference.
    • United States
    • Suffolk University Law Review Vol. 55 No. 1, January 2022
    • January 1, 2022
    ...(11th Cir. 1992) (Godbold, J., dissenting) (reasoning claim permissibly denied due to lack of qualification-standing), vacated en banc, 32 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir. 1994). But see EEOC v. Farmer Bros. Co., 31 F.3d 891, 901 (9th Cir. 1994) (stating in dicta "inequitable" to allow after-acquired e......
  • A Brief Analysis of After-acquired Evidence in Employment Cases: a Proposed Model for Alaska (and Points South)
    • United States
    • Duke University School of Law Alaska Law Review No. 17, January 2000
    • Invalid date
    ...352 (1995). [28] 864 F.2d 700 (10th Cir. 1988). [29]See id. at 708. [30] 968 F.2d 1174 (11th Cir. 1992), reh'g granted, opinion vacated, 32 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir. 1994), and decision en banc, 62 F.3d 374 (11th Cir. 1995). [31]See id. at 1180-81. [32]See McKennon, 513 U.S. at 358. [33]See id. ......
  • Employment Discrimination - Peter Reed Corbin and John E. Duvall
    • United States
    • Mercer University School of Law Mercer Law Reviews No. 46-4, June 1995
    • Invalid date
    ...461 U.S. 424 (1983). 247. 29 F.3d at 1491. 248. Id. at 1492. 249. Id. 250. Id. at 1492-93. 251. Id. at 1492. 252. Id. at 1493-94. 253. 32 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir. 1994) (en banc). 254. See Wallace v. Dunn Construction Co., 968 F.2d 1174 (11th Cir. 1992). 255. 32 F.3d at 1490. 256. 115 S. Ct. 87......
  • Employment Discrimination - John F. Dickinson and F. Damon Kitchen
    • United States
    • Mercer University School of Law Mercer Law Reviews No. 47-3, March 1996
    • Invalid date
    ...Ass'n v. Garland Indep. Sch. Dist, 489 U.S. 782 (1989) ; Hensley v. Eckerhardt, 461 U.S. 424 (1983)). 271. Wallace v. Dunn Constr. Co., 32 F.3d 1489, 1490 (11th Cir. 1994). 272. Wallace, 62 F.3d at 380. 273. Id. 274. Id. 275. Pub. L. No. 102-166, 105 Stat. 1071 (codified as amended in scatt......
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