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FLINN v. FMC CORPORATION

No. 74-2198.

528 F.2d 1169 (1975)

Mabel FLINN, et al., Appellants, v. FMC CORPORATION and Local 9 Textile Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1975.

Certiorari Denied March 22, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. E. Mowery, Jr., Parkersburg, W. Va., for appellants.

Fred L. Davis, James R. Renfroe, Chicago, Ill. (Robert F. St. Aubin, Asst. Counsel, Philadelphia, Pa., McDougle, Davis, Handlan & Davis, Parkersburg, W. Va., on brief), for appellee FMC Corp.

Gregory Abbey, New York City, for appellee Local 9, Textile Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO

Before BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and RUSSELL and FIELD, Circuit Judges.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court approving the settlement of a class action asserting a claim of sex discrimination under the provisions of Title VII. The scope of our review on such an appeal is narrow.1 We are not, in reviewing the settlement, to "substitute our ideas of fairness for those of the district judge * * *."2 Our power, as the appellants concede...

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