CHANCE v. BOARD OF EXAMINERS

No. 464, Docket 71-2021.

458 F.2d 1167 (1972)

Boston M. CHANCE, Louis C. Mercado et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The BOARD OF EXAMINERS, Defendant-Appellant, and The Board of Education of the City of New York et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 5, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saul Z. Cohen, New York City (Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Mark A. Jacoby, Richard E. Hershenson, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Elizabeth B. DuBois, New York City (Jack Greenberg, Jonathan Shapiro, George Cooper, Michael O. Finkelstein, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Charles Wiener, Brooklyn, N. Y., pro se, amicus curiae.

Oscar Gottlieb, Brooklyn, N. Y., pro se, amicus curiae.

Frankle & Greenwald, Max H. Frankle, Leonard Greenwald, New York City, for amicus curiae Council of Supervisors and Administrators of the City of New York, Local 1, School Administrators and Supervisors Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO.

Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, Kenneth J. Bialkin, Jack H. Halperin, Arnold Forster, Paul Hartman, New York City, for amici curiae Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, Council of Jewish Organizations in Civil Service, Inc., and the Catholic Teachers Assn. of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Eugene M. Kaufman, Stephen A. Perelson, New York City, for amicus curiae United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, A.F.T., AFL-CIO.

Burton K. Gordon, Golenbock & Barell, Leonard W. Wagman, Arthur M. Handler, Arlene R. Silverman, New York City, for amicus curiae Public Education Assn.

Charles McCready Pratt, Jose A. Cabranes, New York City, for amicus curiae Aspira of America, Inc.

Robert D. Joffe, R. John Cooper, New York City, for amicus curiae New York Assn. of Black Educators.

Before FEINBERG and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Board of Examiners of the City of New York appeals from a preliminary injunction granted by Walter R. Mansfield, J.,1 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York at the instance of plaintiffs Boston M. Chance and Louis C. Mercado, suing on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated.2 The named...

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