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PEGUES v. MISS. STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, ETC.

No. DC 72-4-S.

488 F.Supp. 239 (1980)

Ms. Rosie Lee PEGUES, Rebecca Gillespie, Mary Boyd and Robert Williams, Plaintiffs, v. MISSISSIPPI STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF the MISSISSIPPI EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Delta Division.

March 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Seymour, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D. C., Nausead Stewart, Jackson, Miss., Richard B. Sobol, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Fred J. Lotterhos, Gen. Counsel, Leopoldo Thomas Aragon, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Mississippi Employment Security Commission, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Lutz Alexander Prager, Washington, D. C., and Charles A. Haycraft, Dist. Director, Jackson District Office, EEOC, Jackson, Miss., for amicus curiae defendant EEOC.

Craig A. Berrington, Jonathan H. Waxman, Acting Counsel for Litigation, Associate Sol. for Manpower, U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., and H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty. and John Hailman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., for amicus curiae Secretary of Labor.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

This action has been submitted to the court for decision after a fourteen-day trial on the merits in which all parties participated.

The court has received the memoranda of the parties and post-trial proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. After a careful study of the evidence presented, the court has concluded for the reasons hereinafter given, that plaintiffs cannot prevail and the...

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