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GRANT v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

No. 824, Docket 79-7225.

635 F.2d 1007 (1980)

Roysworth D. GRANT and Willie C. Ellis, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Louis Martinez, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, James Deaver, Eugene R. Driggers, and Thomas C. Connolly, individually and as agents of Bethlehem Steel Corporation et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Levy, New York City (Lewis M. Steel, Eisner, Levy, Steel & Bellman, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Wayne Cross, New York City (Ralph L. McAfee, Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Michael D. Ratner, New York City, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant.

John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, New York City (Barbara L. Schulman, Dennison Young, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for amicus curiae United States.

Leroy D. Clark, Gen. Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

McGuiness & Williams, Washington, D. C. (Robert E. Williams, Douglas S. McDowell, Edward E. Potter, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for amicus curiae Equal Employment Advisory Council.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, two black and one dark-skinned Puerto Rican ironworkers, brought this class action against Bethlehem Steel Corporation and three of its supervisory employees in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that it had discriminated against blacks and Hispanics in its selection of ironwork foremen, thereby violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e, et seq., 42...

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