GUERRA v. BD. OF TRUSTEES OF CAL. STATE UNIVERSITIES

No. 76-3400.

567 F.2d 352 (1977)

Dr. Manuel GUERRA, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Ad Hoc Committee of Concerned Mexican American Faculty and Students, an unincorporated association, Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, Robert Hornby, William O. Wessick, Charles Luckman, Daniel H. Ridder, Karl L. Wente, Wendell Witter, Winifred H. Lancaster, Gene M. Benedetti, Robert F. Beaver, Roy T. Brotchy, Mrs. C. Stuart Ritchie, Frank T. Adams, Richard A. Garcia, Dean S. Lesher, Dr. Claudia H. Hampton, Yvonne W. Larson, Individually and as members of the Board of Trustees of the California State Universities and Colleges, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, former Governor of the State of California, Mervyn Dymally, Lieutenant Governor of the State of California, Edward Reineke, former Lieutenant Governor of the State of California, Leo McCarthy, Speaker of the Assembly of the State of California, Wilson C. Riles, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of California, Glenn S. Dumke, Chancellor, Individually and as ex-officio members of the Board of Trustees of the California State Universities and Colleges, California Polytechnic State University, Robert E. Kennedy, Individually and as President of California Polytechnic State University, Jon Erickson, Individually and as Dean of the School of Communicative Arts and Humanities of California Polytechnic State University, and Verlan Stahl, Individually and as Acting Head of the Foreign Languages Department of California Polytechnic State University, Defendants and Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 23, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Murphy, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants and petitioners.

Before BROWNING, KILKENNY and TRASK, Circuit Judges.


PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS.

TRASK, Circuit Judge:

Doctor Manuel Guerra, individually and on behalf of a class of Mexican-American faculty and students, brought an action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California under the Civil Rights Acts, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 2000c-8, 2000d, 2000e, and the First, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, charging employment discrimination practiced against Chicano...

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