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DENT v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY

Nos. 24810, 24789, 24811-24813.

406 F.2d 399 (1969)

James C. DENT and United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Appellants, v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Appellees. John A. HYLER et al., Appellants, v. REYNOLDS METAL COMPANY et al., Appellees. Alvin C. MULDROW et al., Appellants, v. H. K. PORTER COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellees. Worthy PEARSON et al., Appellants, v. ALABAMA BY-PRODUCTS CORPORATION et al., Appellees. Rush PETTWAY et al., Individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, and United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Appellants, v. AMERICAN CAST IRON PIPE COMPANY, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 8, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 24810:

Leroy D. Clark, Jack Greenberg, Robert Belton, New York City, Elihu I. Leifer, D. Robert Owen, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Russell Specter, E. E. O. Comm., Washington, D. C., Sanford Jay Rosen, Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

William F. Gardner, Jerome A. Cooper, Birmingham, Ala., Richard R. Lyman, Toledo, Ohio, for appellees.

No. 24789:

Robert L. Carter, New York City, Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Richard F. Bellman, New York City, for appellants.

James R. Forman, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Howell T. Heflin, Tuscumbia, Ala., Clarence F. Rhea, Gadsden, Ala., Jerome Cooper, Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

No. 24811:

Oscar W. Adams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Leroy D. Clark, Robert Belton, New York City, Sanford Jay Rosen, Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

Lucien D. Gardner, Jr., William F. Gardner, Jerome A. Cooper, Birmingham, Ala., Bernard Kleiman, Gen. Counsel, United Steelworkers of Am., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellees.

No. 24812:

Leroy D. Clark, Jack Greenberg, Robert Belton, New York City, Oscar W. Adams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Sanford Jay Rosen, Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

Drayton T. Scott, Jerome Cooper, William F. Gardner, Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

No. 24813:

Leroy D. Clark, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Oscar W. Adams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Elihu I. Leifer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Macon L. Weaver, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., Russell Specter, Equal Emp. Oppor-Comm., Washington, D. C., Sanford Jay Rosen, Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

James R. Forman, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Norman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Kenneth F. Holbert, Acting General Counsel, David R. Cashdan, Atty., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of counsel.

Albert Rosenthal, New York City, David Shapiro, Cambridge, Mass., James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, for appellants Dent, Muldrow, Pearson, Pettway and others; Hawkins, Rhea & Mitchell, Gadsden, Ala., of counsel.

Mulholland, Hickey & Lyman, Toledo, Ohio, for appellees Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America; Clarence Mann, General Chairman of Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America; Clyde Vinyard, Chairman of Local 60 of Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen of America, in Case No. 24810.

Alfred D. Treherne, General Counsel, Washington, D. C., International Union of District 50, United Mine Workers of America, Cooper, Mitch & Crawford, Birmingham, Ala., for appellee International Union of District 50, United Mine Workers of America, in Case No. 24812.

Paul R. Moody, St. Louis, Mo., Paul R. Obert, Pittsburgh, Pa., Drayton Nabers, Jr., Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner & Clark, Birmingham, Ala., for appellees, St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co., H. K. Porter Co., Inc., Alabama By-Products Corp.

Before COLEMAN and CLAYTON, Circuit Judges, and JOHNSON, District Judge.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

Because they present the same legal issue, with no substantial factual differences, these cases were consolidated for appellate disposition. The District Court held that actual conciliation atempts by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [proceeding under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S. C.A. § 2000e et seq.] was jurisdictionally prerequisite to the maintenance of an action...

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