RODGERS v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION

Nos. 74-1815, 74-1816 and 74-2063.

508 F.2d 152 (1975)

Jimmie L. RODGERS and John A. Turner, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION et al. (two cases). Jimmie L. RODGERS and John A. Turner, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION et al. Honorable Hubert I. Teitelbaum, United States District Judge, Nominal Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 24, 1975.

As Amended February 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Coleman, Jr., Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman, Philadelphia, Pa., Bernard D. Marcus, Kaufman & Harris, Pittsburgh, Pa., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Morris J. Baller, Barry L. Goldstein, Deborah M. Greenberg, Eric Schnapper, New York City, for appellants.

Carl B. Frankel, Rudolph L. Milasich, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsels, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pa., Michael H. Gottesman, Bredhoff, Cushman, Gottesman & Cohen, Washington, D. C., for United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO and its Local 1397; Bernard Kleiman, Kleiman, Cornfield & Feldman, Chicago, Ill., Leonard L. Scheinholtz, Walter P. DeForest, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., S. G. Clark, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel.

Before KALODNER, GIBBONS and WEIS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated cases, two appeals and a petition for mandamus, bring before us aspects of a rapidly developing problem area in the law respecting the administration and prosecution of class action litigation. The successful efforts of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in achieving massive industry-wide consent decrees has already resulted in a burgeoning number of cases in which labor unions have...

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