CETA WORKERS' ORG. COMMITTEE v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 406, Docket 79-7649.

617 F.2d 926 (1980)

CETA WORKERS' ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, Association of CETA Employees, CETA Artists Organization, District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, and Stuart Adams, Loretta Argue, Ellen Clarke, Sandra Helling, Ellen Hoffman, Arthur Lesser, Ronald Mendel, Shelley Messing, Bess Mitchell, Stephen Price, Bernard Strassberg, Linda A. Taylor, Vivian Terry, and Harvey S. Thaler, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Appellants, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, Edward I. Koch, Stanley Brezenoff, Ronald T. Gault, Thomas A. McEnery, Michael Nadel, Edwin S. Holmgren, William Gallagher, Robert Payne, American Jewish Congress, on behalf of itself and others similarly situated, Ray Marshall, and James L. Ware, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Martin-Leff, New York City, National Employment Law Project, Inc. (Walter M. Meginniss, Jr., Deborah Bachrach, New York City, National Employment Law Project, Inc.; Beverly Gross, Karen Smith, New York City, District Council 37, AFSCME; Lloyd B. Silverman, David Alleyne, James C. Meagher, Charles E. Tuohy, New York City, Bronx Legal Services, all of counsel), for appellants.

Stephen P. Kramer, New York City (Allen G. Schwartz, Corp. Counsel for the City of New York, L. Kevin Sheridan, New York City, of counsel), for appellees City of New York, Koch, Brezenoff, Gault, McEnery, and Nadel.

Saul G. Kramer, Francis D. Landrey, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, of counsel, for appellee Holmgren.

George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Sol. Gen., Patricia C. Armstrong, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, of counsel, for appellees Gallagher and Payne.

Rodger C. Field, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Harvey M. Stone, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for appellees Marshall and Ware.

Before FRIENDLY, OAKES and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act as amended substantially in 1978 (CETA or "the Act")1 either expressly or impliedly authorizes a private cause of action, against "prime sponsors" and other recipients of federal funds, by individual program participants claiming the following: inadequate training or services under the Act, failure to prepare individual "employability...

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