United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No 02-1573 (2002).
In this case, the NAACP filed an amicus brief in support of Gregory A. Williams and Virgil Hugh Reaves, two NAACP members and former City of Fayetteville, North Carolina police officers who were subjected to equal protection violations, retaliation and involuntary separations when they complained of race discrimination within the City of Fayetteville Police Department.
Since 1996, the Fayetteville Branch of the NAACP has supported the officers' efforts to have all of the retaliatory actions taken against them rescinded. In May of last year, the United States District Court issued an order that, among other things, denied Chief Ronald E. Hansen's motion for summary judgment based upon qualified immunity. Hansen took an immediate appeal of the District Court's decision.
The NAACP brief urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold that portion of the lower court's decision that denied Hansen's assertion of qualified immunity. On September 18, 2002, the Fourth Circuit granted the Fayetteville Branch NAACP's and the National Association of Police Organizations, Inc.'s motions and accepted the amici curiae briefs for filing. Oral arguments occurred on January 21, 2003 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia.
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