Alston & Bird Wins Immunity Victory
In The Press
November 19, 2009
A three-judge panel ruled in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh District that five city of Atlanta employees represented by Alston & Bird are entitled to qualified immunity in a case where the city is being accused of bid-rigging contracts for ad displays at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The court decided that the plaintiff could not prove that the employees in question had performed purposeful and unlawful discrimination violating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment when they favored an incumbent contractor, and remanded the matter back to the district court with instructions to grant the city employees summary judgment.