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567 F2d 1267 Arritt v. G Grisell W T 567 F.2d 1267
17 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 753, 15 Empl. Prac.Dec. P 8012James C. ARRITT, Appellant,v.Elwood G. GRISELL, Robert W. Munn, James T. Campbell, asMembers of the Police Civil Service Commission of the Cityof Moundsville, West Virginia, and the City of Moundsville,West Virginia, a Municipal Corporation, Appellees.
No. 76-2358.
Argued Oct. 4, 1977.Decided Dec. 28, 1977.
Patrick S. Cassidy, Wheeling, W.Va. (O'Brien & Cassidy, Wheeling, W.Va., on brief), for appellant.
Thomas E. White, Moundsville, W.Va. (White & White, Moundsville, W.Va., on brief), for appellees,
Carin Ann Clauss, Sol. of Labor, Carl W. Gerig, Jr., Acting Associate Sol., Lois G. Williams and Peter B. Dolan, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., on brief), as amicus curiae.
Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and WINTER, Circuit Judge, and THOMSEN*, Senior District Judge.
Appellant (plaintiff) applied for employment as a police officer in Moundsville, West Virginia. His application was denied by the City's Police Civil Service Commission on the sole ground that he was 40 years of age and therefore ineligible to take the required physical and mental examinations by reason of West Virginia Code (Michie 1976 Repl.Vol.) § 8-14-12, which establishes an 18-to-35-year age limit for applicants for original appointment to the police force of any city, such as Moundsville, with a population of 10,000 or more. Plaintiff then brought this action against the City and the three members of its Police Civil Service Commission.
The first count, brought under § 7(b) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA),1 and § 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA),2 alleges that such denial of plaintiff's application constituted a violation of § 4(a)(1) of ADEA.3 The second count, brought under the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleges a deprivation of equal protection rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiff seeks a permanent injunction compelling defendants to employ him as a police officer, unpaid wages resulting from his non-employment, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, attorney's fees and costs.
Defendants moved to dismiss the action on the ground that it did not state a cause of action upon which relief can be granted. They also answered the complaint, asserting the West Virginia statutory age limitation. Plaintiff then filed a motion for summary judgment, supported by an unsworn "statement of material facts not in dispute." Defendants filed an answer to the motion for summary judgment, supported by an affidavit of the Chief of Police of the City of Moundsville, and sought summary judgment in their favor or, in the alternative, a determination that plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment because of the existence of a dispute over genuine issues of material facts.
At the hearing on those motions, the district judge denied plaintiff's request for leave to file a counter-affidavit or offer medical testimony, denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, and entered summary judgment in favor of defendants.
I. Plaintiff's Claim under ADEA
Defendants contend that the Supreme Court decision in National League of Cities, et al. v. Usery, 426 U.S. 833, 96 S.Ct. 2465, 49 L.Ed.2d 245 (1976), invalidates the 1974 amendments4 to § 11(b) of ADEA,5 which extend coverage of the anti-discrimination provisions of 29 U.S.C. § 623(a), see note 3 above, to include state and local government employers.
National League of Cities held that the extension6 of the minimum wage and overtime provisions of FLSA7 to state and local government employees engaged in areas of traditional governmental functions could not be upheld as a constitutionally valid regulation of interstate commerce, because the Tenth Amendment limits exercise of the powers of Congress under the Commerce Clau