Eight employees of the Atlanta–Fulton County Library who filed a racial discrimination lawsuit in mid-August against the library board lost their bid for a preliminary injunction before a federal judge August 30.
U.S. District Judge Beverly Martin ruled that the plaintiffs could not prove that the loss of their positions through board-mandated transfers had irreparably harmed them. If Martin had granted the injunction, the board would have been required to give them their old jobs back.
The judge did grant, however, that the lawsuit had a substantial likelihood of success on its merits and scheduled a trial for December, the August 31 Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Posted September 4, 2000.