SIMMONS v. BROWN

No. 78-1709.

611 F.2d 65 (1979)

James E. SIMMONS, Edward S. Ferebee, Melvin L. Holloman, Wilson L. Day, Appellants, v. Harold R. BROWN, Secretary of Defense; W. Graham Claytor, Secretary of Navy; Captain H. C. North, Jr., Commander, Naval Air Rework Facility, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail J. Wright, Philadelphia, Pa. (Jack Greenberg, Charles Stephen Ralston, Bill Lann Lee, New York City, Henry L. Marsh, III, Stephanie J. Valentine, Randall G. Johnson, Hill, Tucker & Marsh, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Peter B. Loewenberg, Civilian Personnel Law Division, Office of Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Navy, Washington, D. C. (Roger T. Williams, Asst. U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This action under § 717 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, comes before this court for the second time. Plaintiffs, four black employees of the Naval Air Rework Facility at Norfolk, Virginia, originally filed this action in 1974 in their behalf and in behalf of a class of similarly situated black employees pursuant to FRCP 23, alleging that they had been the victims of racial discrimination...

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