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SAGERS v. YELLOW FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC.

No. 74-3617.

529 F.2d 721 (1976)

Richard B. SAGERS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. YELLOW FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC., Defendant-Appellee, v. TRUCK DRIVERS AND HELPERS, LOCAL UNION NO. 728 et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 2, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. N. D. Wells, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Robert L. Mitchell, Atlanta, Ga., for Local 728, Intern'l & Sout. Con.

Jack Greenberg, Morris J. Baller, Barry L. Goldstein, New York City, O. Peter Sherwood, Brooklyn, N. Y., John R. Myer, Atlanta, Ga., for Sagers.

Charles Kelso, Atlanta, Ga., for Yellow Frt.

Gerald D. Letwin, EEOC, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae.

Henry M. Rosenblum, Robert B. O'Keefe, Houston, Tex., for Stowers, and others, plaintiffs.

Before WISDOM, GEWIN and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This case is one more in a spate of lawsuits1 brought by minority truck drivers against their employers and union representatives, charging racial discrimination in hiring practices and transfer policies, in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e,2 et seq. and 42 U.S.C. § 1981.3

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