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JOHNSON v. RYDER TRUCK LINES, INC.

No. 76-1293.

555 F.2d 1181 (1977)

Robert L. JOHNSON, Jr., Leroy Sloan, Willie R. Jackson, Ernest H. McManus, and Booker T. Alexander, Jr., Appellees, and William G. Coffey, Jr., Intervenor, v. RYDER TRUCK LINES, INC., a corporation, Appellant, and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, an unincorporated labor organization, and Local 71, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, an unincorporated labor organization, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Reed Corbin, Jacksonville, Fla. (J. P. Jones, Coffman & Jones, Jacksonville, Fla., E. Osborne Ayscue, Jr., Helms, Mulliss & Johnston, Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellant.

Roland P. Wilder, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Robert M. Baptiste and Francis E. Fletcher, Jr., Washington, D. C., on brief), J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, N. C. (Jonathan Wallas, Louis L. Lesesne, Jr., Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Becton, Charlotte, N. C., Jack Greenberg and Barry L. Goldstein, New York City, on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs, black employees, former employees and applicants for employment at Ryder Truck Lines, Inc., brought a class action, under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq., against Ryder and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its affiliated local, union representatives of Ryder employees. Plaintiffs alleged that blacks were systematically denied employment at Ryder and, if employed, were relegated to...

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