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LONG v. GEORGIA KRAFT COMPANY

No. 30453.

450 F.2d 557 (1971)

Linell LONG et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GEORGIA KRAFT COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. Linell LONG et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PULP, SULPHITE AND PAPERMILL WORKERS, AFL-CIO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Moore, Jr., Peter E. Rindskopf, Atlanta, Ga., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Norman Amaker, William L. Robinson, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. R. Goldthwaite, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for Union.

Oscar M. Smith, Rome, Ga., Smith & Schnacke, Dean Delinger, Dayton, Ohio, for Ga. Kraft.

Bobby Lee Cook, A. Cecil Palmour, Summerville, Ga., for Local 654.

George Anderson, Rome, Ga., for Local 804.

Benjamin Wyle, New York City, for Int. Bro. of Pulp, Sulphite etc.

Warren Woods, Washington, D. C., for United Papermakers, etc.

Russell Specter, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Geo. H. Darden, Atty., E. E. O. C., Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before RIVES, GOLDBERG and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, three Negro employees at Georgia Kraft Company's Krannert Division in Rome, Georgia, filed this class action based upon Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., against Georgia Kraft and the defendant unions. The case was tried to the court on the issues: (1) whether a system which incorporates job seniority rather than mill seniority in promoting and laying off employees is discriminatory under Title...

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