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RUSSELL v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

Nos. 74-1650 and 74-1652.

528 F.2d 357 (1975)

Edgar RUSSELL et al., Appellants, v. The AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., and Local 192, Tobacco Workers International Union, an affiliate, AFL-CIO, Appellees. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Amicus Curiae. Edgar RUSSELL et al., Appellees, v. The AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1975.

Certiorari Denied April 19, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Belton, Charlotte, N.C., and O. Peter Sherwood, New York City (Jonathan Wallas, J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, N.C., Jack Greenberg, Morris J. Baller, New York City, Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning, Charlotte, N.C., on brief) for appellants.

Charles T. Hagan, Jr., Greensboro, N.C. (Daniel W. Fouts, Adams, Kleemeier, Hagan, Hannah & Fouts, Greensboro, N.C., on brief), for The American Tobacco Co.

Julius J. Gwyn, Reidsville, N.C. (Gwyn, Gwyn & Morgan, Reidsville, N.C., on brief), for Local 192, Tobacco Workers International Union.

Margaret C. Poles, Alexandria, Va., Atty., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (William A. Carey, Gen. Counsel, Joseph T. Eddins, Jr., Associate Gen. Counsel, and Beatrice Rosenberg and Charles L. Reischel, Attys., Washington, D.C., on brief), for amicus curiae.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and FIELD, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied April 19, 1976. See 96 S.Ct. 1666, 1667.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

These appeals involve only a narrow aspect of a class action in which the district court properly granted black employees broad relief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the American Tobacco Company and Local 192 of the Tobacco Workers International Union, AFL-CIO. The district court found that at the company's...

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