REEVES v. EAVES

Civ. A. Nos. 18191, 18227.

449 F.Supp. 607 (1978)

Floyd Leroy REEVES, Individually and as a member of the class of persons similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Reginald EAVES, Individually and in his capacity as Commissioner of Public Safety, Wyche Fowler, Q. V. Williamson, Buddy Fowlkes, Panke Bradley, Ira Jackson, Carl Ware, Hugh Pierce, Gregory Griggs, Marvin Arrington, John Calhoun, Charles Helms, James Howard, James Bond, Morris Finley, Nick Lambrose, George Cotsakis, Richard Guthman, Arthur Langford and Jack Summers, Individually and in their official capacities as Councilmen, the City of Atlanta, and Maynard Jackson, Individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Atlanta, Defendants, Frank Roberts and the Fraternal Order of Police, Intervenors. AFRO-AMERICAN PATROLMEN'S LEAGUE and Willie D. Cameron, Jerry L. Manning, Harvey M. Wright, C. J. Perry, Dewitt Smith, Ceasar C. Mitchell, Eulus S. Moore, James O. Flag, W. F. Whitaker, Jessie L. Spear, Individually and as members of the class of persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Reginald EAVES, Individually and in his capacity as Commissioner of Public Safety, Wyche Fowler, Q. V. Williamson, Buddy Fowlkes, Panke Bradley, Ira Jackson, Carl Ware, Hugh Pierce, Gregory Griggs, Marvin Arrington, John Calhoun, Charles Helms, James Howard, James Bond, Morris Finley, Nick Lambrose, George Cotsakis, Richard Guthman, Arthur Langford and Jack Summers, Individually and in their official capacities as Councilmen, the City of Atlanta, and Maynard Jackson, Individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Atlanta, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

Order for Hiring of Police Personnel February 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald H. Stroup, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff in No. 18191, Reeves v. Eaves.

Ferrin Y. Mathews, City Atty., W. Roy Mays, III, Asst. City Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for City defendants.

John Nuckolls, Atlanta, Ga., for intervening defendants Frank Roberts and FOP.

Antonio L. Thomas, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs in No. 18227, Afro-American Patrolmen's League v. Inman, etc.

J. Stanley Hawkins, Atlanta, Ga., for Metropolitan Atlanta Crime Commission (amicus).


ORDER

MOYE, District Judge.

In May, 1977 the defendants, City of Atlanta, et al., announced that vacant positions in the Atlanta Bureau of Police Services (hereinafter referred to as ABPS) would be filled through the use of a screening process which included an examination developed internally by the ABPS (hereinafter referred to as the Spring Examination). Plaintiff-Reeves, et al. and Intervenors-Fraternal Order...

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