DocketNumber: 07-1702
Citation Numbers: 270 F. App'x 469
Filed Date: 3/26/2008
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 07-1702 ___________ Pecolia Diggs, * * Appellant, * * Appeal from the United States v. * District Court for the * Eastern District of Arkansas. Osceola, City of, * * [UNPUBLISHED] Appellee. * ___________ Submitted: March 7, 2008 Filed: March 26, 2008 ___________ Before MURPHY, COLLOTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM. Pecolia Diggs, an African American formerly employed by the City of Osceola police department, appeals the district court’s1 adverse grant of summary judgment in her Title VII action against the City, alleging racially motivated disparate treatment and retaliatory termination. Having carefully reviewed the record and considered Diggs’s arguments, we find no basis for reversal. See Jacob-Mua v. Veneman,289 F.3d 517
, 520 (8th Cir. 2002) (de novo standard of review). We also conclude there is no merit in Diggs’s argument that the district court improperly coerced her into 1 The Honorable Susan Webber Wright, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas. amending her complaint to substitute the City for the police department as defendant, because the police department was not amenable to suit. See Ketchum v. City of West Memphis,974 F.2d 81
, 82 (8th Cir. 1992) (police department was simply subdivision of city government and not juridical entity suable as such). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ -2-