BOWERS v. KRAFT FOODS CORP.

No. 79-1272.

606 F.2d 816 (1979)

Mary L. BOWERS, Appellant, v. KRAFT FOODS CORP., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 4, 1979.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing October 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Howard, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Edwin L. Noel, Armstrong, Teasdale, Kramer & Vaughan, St. Louis, Mo. (argued), and Walter M. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., on brief, for appellee.

Before HEANEY and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and LARSON, Senior District Judge.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision dismissing appellant Bowers' claims of racial discrimination in job classification, promotion and pay, and awarding the prevailing defendant, her employer Kraft Foods Corp., attorney's fees. Bowers initially filed this suit on May 7, 1974, as a class action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. The case was dismissed without prejudice on the eve of trial and on...

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