OGLETREE v. McNAMARA

No. 20927.

449 F.2d 93 (1971)

Edward J. OGLETREE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert S. McNAMARA et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

September 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel R. Jones, and William D. Wells, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants; William Davis, Columbus, Ohio, on brief; Anne Gross Feldman, Joan Franklin, New York City, of counsel.

Robert M. Feinson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees; L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter H. Fleischer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., William W. Milligan, U. S. Atty., Dayton, Ohio, on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and BROOKS, Circuit Judges.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is not a simple case either to describe or decide. It is a wholesale attack upon the employment practices and the system for reviewing same at the United States Air Force's Wright Patterson Air Force Base. It alleges systematic racial discrimination and the unconstitutionality of the very orders and regulations which purport to ban such discrimination.

Since the complaint was dismissed on appellees' motion for summary judgment...

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