MANHART v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, DEPT. OF WATER, ETC.

No. 79-3225.

652 F.2d 904 (1981)

Marie MANHART, Carolyn Mayshack, Margerie Stoop, Alice F. Muller and Ethel L. Lehman, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated; Committee to Protect Women's Retirement Benefits; and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 18, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER, a body corporate and politic; Members of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners of the Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles; Members of the Board of Administration of the Department of Water and Power Employees' Retirement, Disability and Death Benefits Insurance Plan; Henry G. Bodkin, Jr.; Katherine B. Dunlap; Burton J. Gindler; Michael Glazer; Herbert C. Ward; Louis J. Weidner, Jr.; Ralph E. Powell; Leo W. Sudmeier, Jr.; William D. Sachau; and Robert V. Phillips, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1981.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Oliphant, Deputy City Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Howard M. Knee, Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Krepack, Los Angeles, Cal., Katherine Stoll Burns, Woodland Hills, Cal., on brief; Robert M. Dohrmann, Los Angeles, Cal., argued, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KILKENNY, FLETCHER, and CANBY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 16, 1981.

CANBY, Circuit Judge.

This suit began as a class action brought on behalf of all women employed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power who had contributed to the department's pension fund. The suit alleged that the city discriminated against women by requiring them to contribute to the fund at a higher rate than male employees. The plaintiffs made claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights...

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