HARPER v. KLOSTER

Nos. 73-1853 to 73-1855.

486 F.2d 1134 (1973)

Louis R. HARPER, Jr., et al., Appellees, v. Joseph M. KLOSTER and Stanley C. Leonard, Appellants. Louis R. HARPER, Jr., et al., Appellees, v. Giffen B. NICKOL et al., Appellants. Louis R. HARPER, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, a municipal corporation, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Thomas Howell, Baltimore, Md. (Norman P. Ramsey, Richard T. Sampson, and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants in No. 73-1853.

Kenneth L. Johnson, Baltimore, Md. (Howard, Brown & Williams, Baltimore, Md., Jack Greenberg, William L. Robinson and Jeffrey A. Mintz, New York City, on brief), for appellants in No. 73-1855 and for appellees in Nos. 73-1853 and 73-1854.

Paul D. Bekman, Baltimore, Md. (William H. Engelman and Kaplan, Heyman, Engelman & Belgrad, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants in No. 73-1854.

George L. Russell, Jr., City Sol., Baltimore (Gerald S. Klein, Asst. City Sol., Baltimore, on brief), for appellees in No. 73-1855.

Before WINTER, FIELD and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Four black employees (Harper, et al.) of the Baltimore City Fire Department brought a class action under 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981, 1983 and 1988; 28 U.S.C.A. § 2201; and the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments, against Baltimore City and the members of the Board of Fire Commissioners and the Civil Service Commission, in their representative capacity, to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief against allegedly racially discriminatory...

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