WOMEN IN CITY GOVERNMENT UNITED v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 1245, Docket 74-2352.

563 F.2d 537 (1977)

WOMEN IN CITY GOVERNMENT UNITED, Barbara Robertson, Leslie Boyarsky, Jacquelin Gross, Arlene Friedman, Robert Sussman, Alicia Cantelmi, Pamela Mills, Susan Pass, Linda Zises, Emily Blitz, Susan Padwee, Elaine Justic, Eula Carter and Linda Shah, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, Abraham Beame as Mayor of the City of New York, John V. Lindsay, Harry Bronstein, as City Personnel Director, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York City Housing Authority, New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation, Joseph Monserrat, Seymour P. Lachman, Isaiah E. Robinson, Jr., Mary E. Meade, Constituting the Board of Education of the City of New York, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Greater New York, Group Health Incorporated, Social Services Employees Union, Social Services Employees Union Welfare Fund, District Council 37, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, District Council 37, Health & Security Plan, United Federation of Teachers and United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 28, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K. Randlett Walster, New York City (Herbert Jordan, Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants Women In City Government United.

David W. Fisher, New York City (W. Bernard Richland, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees City of New York, Mayor Abraham Beame, City Personnel Director Harry Bronstein, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation and the members of the Board of Education of the City of New York.

Donald B. Da Parma, New York City (Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Greater New York.

Gerald J. Barre, Great Neck, N. Y. (Stephen F. Gordon, Mirkin, Barre, Saltzstein & Gordon, P. C., Great Neck, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Social Service Employees Union Local 371 and Social Service Employees Union Local 371 Welfare Fund.

Robert M. Ziskin, Great Neck, N. Y. (Stephen F. Gordon, Mirkin, Barre, Saltzstein & Gordon, P.C., Great Neck, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees United Federation of Teachers and United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund.

Bertram Perkel, New York City (Victor Metsch, Hartman & Craven, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee District Council 37, Health & Security Plan.

Benjamin Schlesinger, Schulman, Abarbanel & Schlesinger, Julius Topol, New York City, for defendant-appellee District Council 37, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees.

Diana E. Pinover, Trubin, Sillcocks, Edelman & Knapp, New York City, for defendant-appellee Group Health Incorporated.

Before MANSFIELD, TIMBERS and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This action was begun on January 17, 1974, with the filing of a class action complaint. Plaintiffs allege violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, and the Civil Rights Act of 1870, 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Plaintiffs also assert claims arising under the New York State Constitution...

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