BENNETT v. GRAVELLE

Civ. A. No. 70-534-N.

323 F.Supp. 203 (1971)

James B. BENNETT et al., Plaintiffs, and Carl A. Brown et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Louis A. GRAVELLE, individually and in his capacity as Chairman (now Member) of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Salvatore Barranca, individually and in his capacity as Vice-Chairman (now Chairman) of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Peter R. Bozick, individually and in his capacity as a Member of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Carter C. Hubbel, Jr., individually and in his capacity as a Member of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, John J. McBurney, individually and in his capacity as a Member of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, George W. McRory, individually and in his capacity as a Member of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

January 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Johnson, Baltimore, Md., and Richard B. Sobol and Richard T. Seymour, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs and intervening plaintiffs.

J. Lloyd Niles, John B. Kenkel and Charles M. Byrd, Hyattsville, Md., and Thompson Powers and Martin P. Schneiderman, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Stephen D. Shawe, Baltimore, Md., for The Maryland Commission on Human Relations, amicus curiae.

Stanley P. Hebert, Robert Fitzpatrick and Craig T. Sawyer, Washington, D. C., for The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.


NORTHROP, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs in this proceeding are twenty-seven (27) black and two (2) white former employees of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) who were discharged for engaging in an unlawful walkout against the WSSC; four (4) current black employees of the WSSC who intervened after this action commenced; and one minor black woman suing through her father for the denial of employment by the...

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