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FRIEND v. LEIDINGER

Nos. 77-2026, 77-2351.

588 F.2d 61 (1978)

Roscoe FRIEND and Theodore Fuller and Black Brothers Combined of the City of Richmond, Inc., a Virginia Corporation, Appellants, v. William LEIDINGER, Jack M. Fulton, Theodore Thornton and John F. Finnegan, Jr., Individually and in their official capacities, Appellees. Roscoe FRIEND and Theodore Fuller and Black Brothers Combined of the City of Richmond, Inc., a Virginia Corporation, Appellants, v. The CITY OF RICHMOND, William Leidinger, Jack M. Fulton, Theodore Thornton, John F. Finnegan, Jr., Individually and in their respective capacities, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony W. Robinson, Kenneth L. Johnson and Gerald G. Poindexter, Richmond, Va., for appellants.

Conrad B. Mattox, Jr., and James R. Saul, Richmond, Va., for appellees.

Before BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, District Judge.

CHAPMAN, District Judge.

The appellants are black fire fighters presently or formerly employed by the Richmond Fire Bureau. They instituted this class action pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as amended in 1972 to cover governmental employers) complaining of racial discrimination in certain employment and promotional practices and procedures of the Bureau. A class was certified as being "Negroes who have, within the applicable period of the statute...

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