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RIOS v. WASHINGTON

No. 73-1475 Summary Calendar.

480 F.2d 543 (1973)

Jose RIOS and Carlos Pinon, Individually, etc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Col. Robbin E. L. WASHINGTON, Chairman of the El Paso Municipal Civil Service Commission, et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees, Ferndnado Pena et al., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 7, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bart Cox, El Paso, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Travis White, City Atty., John C. Ross, Jr., Wade Adkins, Paul A. Echols, Asst. City Attys., El Paso, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

D. Clark Hughes, El Paso, Tex., for intervenor.

Before THORNBERRY, GOLDBERG and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants filed suit in the court below on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, challenging portions of the El Paso, Texas, Municipal Charter that provide for the award of five points of extra credit to "veterans'" scores on municipal civil service examinations. Appellants alleged that they were members of a class composed of "municipal employees of the City of El Paso, Texas, who are not defined as `veterans'" under the challenged...

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