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BEAZER v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

Nos. 1043, 1309, Dockets 76-7295, 77-7092.

558 F.2d 97 (1977)

Carl A. BEAZER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY et al., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alphonse E. D'Ambrose, Brooklyn, N. Y. (E. W. Summers, G. T. Dunn, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

Elizabeth B. DuBois, Eric D. Balber, Mark C. Morril, New York City (Michael Meltsner, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., New York City, Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ronald R. Glancz, Robert S. Greenspan, Walter W. Barnett, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Sidney Edelman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Rockville, Md., Robert B. Lanman, Senior Atty., Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D. C., on brief for United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance of the appeal.

Before MANSFIELD and OAKES, Circuit Judges, and BRIEANT, District Judge.

OAKES, Circuit Judge.

I.

In a comprehensive and carefully limited opinion, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Thomas P. Griesa, Judge, held that the New York City Transit Authority's blanket exclusion from employment of all persons participating in or having successfully concluded methadone maintenance programs — the plaintiff class in this action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 — violated the equal...

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