Williams v. Dekalb County
| Citation | 582 F.2d 2 |
| Decision Date | 10 October 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. 76-2998,76-2998 |
| Parties | 18 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 1749, 18 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 8647 Johnny WILLIAMS, on behalf of himself and other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DEKALB COUNTY, A Political Subdivision of the State of Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Edward Lundy Baety, Atlanta, Ga., Fletcher Farrington, Savannah, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.
George P. Dillard, Herbert O. Edwards, Wendell K. Willard, Decatur, Ga., J. Lewis Sapp, Charles K. Howard, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.
On Petition for Rehearing and Petition for Rehearing En Banc.
(Opinion July 27 (1978, 5 Cir., 1978, 577 F.2d 248)).
Before TUTTLE and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and EDENFIELD, * District Judge.
Upon motion for rehearing, a majority of the court agrees with Judge Clark's special concurring opinion. The opinion is accordingly modified to hold that under the teaching of Washington v. Davis, 426 U.S. 229, 96 S.Ct. 2040, 48 L.Ed.2d 597 (1976), the named plaintiff and the class must make a showing of purposeful discrimination before casting the burden on the defendant to rebut the charge; that a claim under § 1981 is, for this purpose, to be equated with a That part of the panel opinion headed "Conclusion" (577 F.2d at 256) is therefore deleted from the opinion as are the statements holding that a prima facie case is made by statistics alone. The following "Conclusion" is substituted for the corresponding part of the original opinion:
claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, dealt with by the court in Washington, rather than under Title VII of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.
The trial court decided the case before Washington v. Davis, supra, and thus did not find it necessary to determine whether there was purposeful discrimination. The case must be remanded to the trial court to determine whether the plaintiff's evidence including the statistical data established a prima facie case of discriminatory purpose which, if unrebutted, would establish liability. If the court finds that such a prima facie case has been made out, we adhere to our other determinations contained in the original opinion 1 and the trial court will then resolve the questions we have set forth there.
The judgment is REVERSED and the case is REMANDED for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
Judge Tuttle would adhere to the original opinion of the panel....
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