CHEWNING v. SCHLESINGER

Civ. A. No. 76-334.

471 F.Supp. 767 (1979)

June CHEWNING et al., Plaintiffs, v. James R. SCHLESINGER, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen S. Cowen (argued), Robert N. Ford, Asst. U. S. Attys., Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for defendant; Henry A. Gill, Jr. (argued), Dept. of Energy, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Sara-Ann Determan, Karen Lee McCleary, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D. C., for amici curiae NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and Women's Legal Defense Fund, Inc.

Gary Howard Simpson, Bethesda, Md. (argued), David N. Webster (argued), Paul Martin Wolff, Brenda V. Sullivan, Jr., F. Whitten Peters (argued), Williams & Connolly, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM

FLANNERY, District Judge.

On February 27, 1976, the plaintiff June Chewning filed a class action complaint against the Atomic Energy Commission ("AEC"), alleging a pattern and practice of sex discrimination prohibited by Section 717 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (1976). The court subsequently certified a class to include all women employed in "professional" positions between January...

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