SIMS v. SHEET METAL WORKERS INT. ASS'N LOC. U. NO. 65

Nos. 73-1264, 73-1265.

489 F.2d 1023 (1973)

Robert SIMS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SHEET METAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, LOCAL UNION NO. 65 et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Stege, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, for Robert Sims, and others; C. Lyonel Jones, Isabelle K. Pinzler, Cleveland, Ohio, Dennis R. Yeager, E. Richard Larson, Nathaniel R. Jones, New York City, on briefs.

Robert T. Moore, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States; J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frederick M. Coleman, U. S. Atty., David L. Rose, Squire Padgett, James Angus, Francis Cronin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on briefs.

Edward J. Simerka, Arlene B. Steuer, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendants-appellees; David W. Byers, Schwartz, Einhart & Simerka, Cleveland, Ohio, on briefs, Cozza, Steuer & Stavole, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel.

Before CELEBREZZE, PECK and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

This case is concerned with alleged racial discrimination in the sheet metal trades of the Greater Cleveland area. On January 28, 1971 the individual plaintiffs filed a class action for declaratory and injunctive relief and damages for deprivation of rights secured by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and by 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1983 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.). The defendant...

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