LOCAL 189, UNITED PAPERMAK. & PAPERWORK. v. UNITED STATES

No. 25956.

416 F.2d 980 (1969)

LOCAL 189, UNITED PAPERMAKERS AND PAPERWORKERS, AFL-CIO, CLC; United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, CLC; and Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, by John MITCHELL, Attorney General, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied October 1, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Barker, Dodd, Hirsch, Barker & Meunier, New Orleans, La., Warren Woods, Louis F. Oberdorfer, Washington, D. C., Michael J. Molony, Jr., Jerry L. Gardner, New Orleans, La., Betty Southard Murphy, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellants Local 189, United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, CLC; United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, CLC; McInnis, Wilson, Munson & Woods, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

John W. Vardaman, Jr., Sally Katzen, Washington, D. C., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D. C., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellant Crown Zellerbach Corporation.

Louis C. La Cour, U. S. Atty., Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Kenneth L. Johnson, Denis F. Gordon, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

David L. Rose, U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Richard B. Sobol, Ann Arbor, Mich., George Cooper, New York City., Collins, Douglas & Elie, New Orleans, La., for appellees Local 189a, United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, CLC, David Johnson, Sr., and Anthony Hill.

Before WISDOM and DYER, Circuit Judges, and KRENTZMAN, District Judge.


Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 1, 1969.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in all aspects of employment.1 In this case we deal with one of the most perplexing issues troubling the courts under Title VII:2 how to reconcile equal employment opportunity today with seniority expectations...

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