CONTRACTORS ASS'N OF EASTERN PA. v. SECRETARY OF LABOR

No. 19027.

442 F.2d 159 (1971)

The CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA v. The SECRETARY OF LABOR, George P. Shultz, the Assistant Secretary of Labor, Arthur A. Fletcher, the Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance, John L. Wilks, the Secretary of Agriculture, Clifford M. Hardin, and the General State Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. James D. Morrissey, Inc., the Conduit & Foundation Corp., Glasgow, Inc., Buckley & Company, the Nyleve Company, Erb Engineering & Constr. Co., Perkins, Kanak, Foster, Inc., and Lansdowne Constructors, Inc. (Intervening Plaintiffs in D. C.). The Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania, James D. Morrissey, Inc., the Conduit & Foundation Corp., Glasgow, Inc., Buckley & Company, the Nyleve Company, Erb Engineering & Constr. Co., Perkins, Kanak, Foster, Inc., and Lansdowne Constructors, Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. McAleese, Jr., Synnestvedt & Lechner, Robert J. Bray, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff and intervening plaintiffs-appellants.

David L. Rose, Civil Right Division, Planning and Special Appeals Section, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Peter Nash, Solicitor of Labor, Gerald L. Paley, Associate Solicitor of Labor, Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis C. Bechtle, U. S. Atty., Bernard H. Shapiro, Joseph B. Scott, Attys., U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for federal appellee.

Theodore R. Mann and Barry E. Ungar, Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae, for appellees; Goodis, Greenfield, Narin & Mann, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Winthrop A. Johns, Lawrence T. Zimmerman, Washington, D. C., for Associated General Contractors of America; Reilly, Johns & Zimmerman, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Nathaniel R. Jones, General Counsel, Paul J. Spiegelman, New York City, Russell Specter, Washington, D. C., William D. Wells, amici curiae, for NAACP; Robert J. Reinstein, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Sherman, Dunn & Cohen, Louis Sherman, Washington, D. C., Meranze Katz, Spear & Bielitsky, Bernard N. Katz, Philadelphia, Pa., amici curiae, for Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO and Building and Construction Trades Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, AFL-CIO.

John D. Day, Asst. City Sol., Matthew W. Bullock, Jr., First Deputy City Sol., Levy Anderson, City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., amici curiae, for City of Philadelphia.

Ralph B. Powell, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae, for General Building Contractors Ass'n, Inc.

Guy Farmer, Patterson, Belknap, Farmer & Shibley, Washington, D. C., amici curiae, for National Electrical Contractors Ass'n.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and McLAUGHLIN and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

The original plaintiff, the Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania (the Association) and the intervening plaintiffs,1 construction contractors doing business in the Philadelphia area (the Contractors), appeal from an order of the district court which denied their motion for summary judgment, granted the motion of the the federal defendants2 to...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases