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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

Nos. 74-2660, 74-2867.

519 F.2d 1147 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CITY OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees, Lushes Walker and Local Union 1888, etc., Movants-Appellants. LOCAL UNION 1888 OF the AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danny E. Cupit, Dixon L. Pyles, Jackson, Miss., for Lucas Walker and Local Union 1888.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., L. A. Smith, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., David L. Rose, Michael A. Middleton, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S.

John E. Stone, City Atty., City of Jackson, Thomas H. Watkins, Lawrence J. Franck, Rhesa H. Barksdale, Jackson, Miss., for City of Jackson.

Before GIBSON, THORNBERRY and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated appeals, a union local whose members are black employees of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, and several of the union's individual members raise procedural questions arising out of actions by them and by the United States to remedy alleged racial discrimination in employment by the city. Although the appellants and the government have shared this general aim, their efforts have been neither closely coordinated nor...

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