LEGAL AID SOC. OF ALAMEDA CTY. v. BRENNAN

Nos. 74-2954, 74-3013 to 74-3015, 74-3234, 74-3250, 74-3317 and 74-3391.

608 F.2d 1319 (1979)

LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY; Stephen E. Ronfeldt; Linda Castillo; Delores Luster; John Stafford; Isadore Payne; Western Regional Job Council, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Peter J. BRENNAN, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor; Philip Davis, Acting Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance; Earl L. Butz, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; William Gladden, Chief, Contract Compliance Division, Office of Equal Opportunity, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendants, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, on behalf of its affected members, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants. LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. NCC FOOD CORPORATION, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant. LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DEL MONTE CORPORATION, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants. LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CPC INTERNATIONAL, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant. LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CARNATION COMPANY, H. J. Heinz Company, Sunshine Biscuits, Inc., Bell Brand Foods, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants. LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GRANNY GOOSE FOODS, INC., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant. LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GOLDEN GRAIN MACARONI CO., and its division, Ghirardelli Chocolate, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 4, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noble K. Gregory, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., Gerard C. Smetana, Borovsky, Smetana, Enhrlich & Dronenberg, Washington, D. C., Maureen E. McClain, San Francisco, Cal., for Carnation Co., et al.

Mark L. Gross, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Russell W. Galloway, Jr., Oakland, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BROWNING, WALLACE and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges.


BROWNING, Chief Judge:

As a condition of doing business with the federal government, larger federal contractors are required to develop "written affirmative action compliance programs" designed to further equal employment opportunity. The contents of these programs are specified by regulation. 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-1.40, 60-2.10 to 13.

Several Black residents of Alameda County, California and organizations representing them, brought this suit against responsible...

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