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LYGHT v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Civ. A. No. 6-72521.

458 F.Supp. 137 (1978)

Willis Anderson LYGHT, Plaintiff, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

October 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin D. Sharon, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff.

Kermit G. Bailer, Paul R. Caldwell, Jess Womack, Dearborn, Mich., for defendant Ford Motor Co.

OPINION

FEIKENS, District Judge.

In this suit Willis Lyght, a black man, charges that defendant Ford Motor Company discriminated against him because of his race by failing to promote him from hourly to supervisory status between 1966 and April of 1973.

Until February of 1971 Ford required all supervisors (formerly foremen) to possess a high school diploma or its equivalent. Lyght himself was not considered...

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