ROSENFELD v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY

Nos. 23983, 23984.

444 F.2d 1219 (1971)

Leah ROSENFELD, Appellee, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, Appellant. Leah ROSENFELD, Appellee, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson Frazier, Deputy Atty. Gen., (argued), Evelle J. Younger, Cal. Atty. Gen., Jay S. Linderman, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

Frank G. Wells (argued), of Gang, Tyre & Brown, Hollywood, Cal., Louis M. Brown, Los Angeles, Cal., Bodle, Fogel, Julber & Reinhardt, Los Angeles, Cal., Schoene & Kramer, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

David W. Zugschwerdt, Washington, D. C., Charles P. Scully, Donald C. Carroll, San Francisco, Cal., for amicus curiae.

Before CHAMBERS, HAMLEY and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

Leah Rosenfeld brought this action against Southern Pacific Company pursuant to section 706(f) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Act), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f).1 Plaintiff, an employee of the company, alleged that in filling the position of agent-telegrapher at Thermal, California, in March, 1966, Southern Pacific discriminated against her solely because of her sex, by assigning the position to a junior...

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