EMERSON ELEC. CO. v. SCHLESINGER

Nos. 79-1158, 79-1187.

609 F.2d 898 (1979)

EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellant, v. James A. SCHLESINGER, Lt. General Wallace Robinson, Philip J. Davis, Ray Marshall, John H. Powell, Jr., Appellees. McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellant, v. Ray MARSHALL, Secretary, U. S. Department of Labor; John H. Powell, Jr., Chairman, EEOC; Philip J. Davis, Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance; James W. Cisco, Deputy Chief, Office of Federal Contract Compliance DCASR; Robert T. Horner, Chief, Office of Contract Compliance — DCASR, St. Louis; and Eugene P. Keenan, District Director, EEOC, St. Louis, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Walsh, Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts, St. Louis, Mo., argued, Dennis C. Donnelly and Gary T. Carr, St. Louis, Mo., on brief, for appellants.

Susan M. Chalker, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., argued, for appellees, EEOC and Dept. of Labor. Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Robert D. Kingsland, U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo. Abner W. Sibal, Gen. Counsel; Joseph T. Eddins, Jr., Associate Gen. Counsel; Beatrice Rosenberg, Asst. Gen. Counsel; and Paul E. Mirengoff, Atty., EEOC, Washington, D. C., on brief, for appellees.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Judge, United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Emerson Electric Company and McDonnell Douglas Corporation appeal from a ruling of the District Court upholding the validity of a 1974 "Memorandum of Understanding" providing, inter alia, for the sharing of information between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).1 Because appellants assert a number of grounds...

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