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COLORADO ANTI-DISCRIM. COM'N v. CONTINENTAL AIR LINES

No. 19771.

368 P.2d 970 (1962)

The COLORADO ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMISSION and Edward Miller, Mrs. Paul Budin, Clarence C. Bellinger, Gene Manzanares, Robert C. Keeler, George J. White, and George O. Cory, as members of said Commission and Marlon D. Green, Plaintiffs in Error, v. CONTINENTAL AIR LINES, INC., Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing March 5, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charles S. Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff in error Anti-Discrimination Commission.

T. Raber Taylor, Denver, for plaintiff in error Marlon D. Green.

Holland & Hart, Patrick M. Westfeldt, William C. McClearn, Warren L. Tomlinson, Denver, for defendant in error.

Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harold H. Greene, David Rubin, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Arnold Forster, Gen. Counsel, Paul Hartman, Sol Rabkin, Associate Counsel, New York City, Donaldson, Hoffman & Goldstein, Denver, for Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Edwin J. Lukas, Gen. Counsel, Theodore Leskes, Associate Counsel, Charles Rosenbaum, New York City, for American Jewish Committee.

Mandel Berenbaum, Louis G. Isaacson, Joseph Mosko, James Radetsky, Stanton Rosenbaum, Walter M. Simon, Anthony F. Zarlengo, William S. Powers, Denver, amici curiae.

MOORE, Justice.

Marlon D. Green filed a complaint before the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission in which he alleged that the Continental Airlines violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act of 1957 by refusing to employ him as an airline pilot on or about July 8, 1957, because he is a Negro. It was further alleged that Continental Airlines violated the said act in that its forms of application for employment as a pilot contain at least two specifications prohibited...

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