COATES v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Nos. 82-2328, 82-2329.

756 F.2d 524 (1985)

Wesley COATES, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Intervening-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bridget Arimond and Judson H. Miner, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Calland, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael G. Cleveland, Vedder, Price, Kaufman, Kammholz, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Judy T. Ellis, E.E.O.C., Gen. Counsel Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for intervening-plaintiff-appellant.

Before WOOD and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of an individual and class action brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. (1976 & Supp. V 1981), and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (1976), charging racial discrimination in the pattern and practice of employee discharges between 1974 and 1981 at defendants-appellees' Midwest Diaper Plant formerly in Park Forest...

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