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BAKER v. CITY OF DETROIT

Nos. 5-71937, 5-72264.

504 F.Supp. 841 (1980)

Kenneth BAKER, Arthur Bartniczak, Hanson Bratton, Patrick Jordan, Frank Krezowik, Elbert McVay and Robert Scally, Plaintiffs, and Hanson Bratton, Gale Bogenn, William Shell, Patrick Jordan, Charles Mahoney, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated and The Detroit Police Lieutenants & Sergeants Association, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF DETROIT, a Municipal corporation; Philip G. Tannian, Chief of Police; Coleman A. Young, Mayor, City of Detroit; and The Board of Police Commissioners, City of Detroit, Defendants, and Guardians of Michigan, David L. Simmons, Arnold D. Payne, James E. Crawford, Clinton Donaldson, Willie Johnson, Kenneth M. Johnson and Alfred Brooks, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

November 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Hoffa, Murray J. Chodak, Hoffa, Chodak & Robiner, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs in No. 5-71937.

K. Preston Oade, Jr., Bernard A. Friedman, Robert S. Harrison, Marc G. Whitefield, Lippit, Harrison, Perlove, Friedman & Zack, Southfield, Mich., for plaintiffs in No. 5-72264.

Beth J. Lief, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, O. Peter Sherwood, Napoleon B. Williams, Lowell Johnston, New York City, Barry L. Goldstein, Washington, D. C., James R. Andary, Sp. Asst. Corp. Counsel for the City of Detroit, George Matish, Anna Diggs-Taylor, Nancy McCaughan, James Zeman, Denise Page Hood, Law Dept., City of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., for defendants.

Warren J. Bennia, New York City, for intervening defendants.

FINAL OPINION

KEITH, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.

This case concerns the affirmative action program of the Detroit Police Department. Numerous opinions of this Court have discussed the program at length. After a long trial this Court entered an extensive opinion on October 1, 1979, upholding the City's affirmative action program. The only caveat in this Court's opinion was that some form of end-date needed to be placed on the program. To that end...

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