On December 7, 2000, current and former female employees of Alabama's Department of Veterans Affairs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the state's Department of Veterans Affairs discriminated against them on the basis of sex, in violation of the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. The plaintiffs also filed the lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violation of their rights guaranteed by the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. For these violations, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, back pay, front pay, compensatory damages, and attorney fees.

On March 3, 2006, the court (Judge Mark E. Fuller) granted in part and denied in part the defendants' motion for summary judgment. Prewett v. State of Alabama Dep't of Veterans Affairs, 419 F. Supp. 2d 1338 (M.D. Ala. 2006) opinion vacated on reconsideration sub nom. Prewett v. Alabama Dep't of Veterans Affairs, 533 F. Supp. 2d 1160 (M.D. Ala. 2007). Then, on December 27, 2007, the court (Judge R. David Proctor) vacated its earlier decision denying in part the defendants' motion for summary judgment and granted the remainder of it. Prewett v. Alabama Dep't of Veterans Affairs, 533 F. Supp. 2d 1160 (M.D. Ala. 2007). The case is now closed.

Jordan Rossen - 02/06/2014


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