PARSON v. KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 74-3468.

575 F.2d 1374 (1978)

Harris A. PARSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORP., and Local 13000, United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nils R. Douglas, New Orleans, La., Richard B. Sobol, Anne P. Buxton, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Carl J. Schumacher, Jr., Donald R. Mintz, New Orleans, La., Alfred D. Trehene, Washington, D. C., John C. Falkenberry, Birmingham, Ala., Burk & Burk, New Orleans, La., Michael H. Gottesman, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Robert J. Allen, Jr., Oakland, Cal., for Kaiser Aluminum, Etc.

Jerry L. Gardner, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Local 225.

D'Amico & Curet, Baton Rouge, La., for United Machine Workers of America, Int'l Union 50.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge and MILLER, Associate Judge.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff, a black employee at the Chalmette, Louisiana plant of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation (Kaiser), appeals from a judgment dismissing his individual and class claims of racial discrimination in employment. Finding errors of both fact and law in the dismissal at the close of the plaintiff's case, we reverse and remand.

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In July 1966, the named plaintiff...

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