LEWIS v. BROWN & ROOT, INC.

No. 82-2217.

711 F.2d 1287 (1983)

Dennis J. LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BROWN & ROOT, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Attorney Fee Awards Vacated January 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace R. George, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Christopher A. Knepp, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE, GARZA and TATE, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

The record in this case paints a convincing picture of the sort of civil rights action that should never have been filed.

Plaintiff Dennis J. Lewis is a thirty-year old black native and citizen of Trinidad, W.I. He had two years of schooling there to become a pipefitter and served an apprenticeship in that trade at the Shell Chemical plant in Trinidad. In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, we find him at work in Texas for defendant Brown...

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