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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES DIST. COURT

No. 79-3643.

658 F.2d 430 (1981)

Mzell WILLIAMS, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, Southern District of Ohio, W.D. at Cincinnati, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1981.

As Amended October 5, 1981.

Certiorari Denied December 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas G. Cole, Strauss, Troy & Ruehlmann Co., Alan C. Rosser, Cincinnati, Ohio, James C. Hickey, Ewen, MacKenzie & Peden, P.S.C., Louisville, Ky., Barry L. Goldstein, Washington, D. C., William D. Griffiths, Cincinnati, Ohio, Jack Greenberg, Patrick O. Patterson, New York City, for petitioner.

James G. Headley, Frost & Jacobs, Robert A. Dimling, Cincinnati, Ohio, Charles A. Horsky/Kathryn P. Covington & Burling, Broderick, Washington, D. C., and William P. Stallsmith, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Cincinnati, New Orleans Southern R. R.

Susan Buckingham Reilly, EEOC, Washington, D. C., for intervenor-E.E.O.C.

Leonard D. Slutz, Cincinnati, Ohio, for United Transportation Union and UT Local 1190.

Patrick O. Patterson, New York City, for petitioner-Mzell Williams.

Jeffrey S. Berlin, Joyce E. Mayers, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, Washington, D. C., for respondent Railroad Companies.

Before WEICK and KEITH, Circuit Judges; PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Certiorari Denied December 14, 1981. See 102 S.Ct. 980.

KEITH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Mzell Williams requests that this court issue a writ of mandamus directing the district court below to vacate a "gag" order issued pursuant to a local district court rule. The order prohibits, without prior court approval, communications between petitioner or his counsel and the actual or potential class members in this Title VII race discrimination suit. The petitioner...

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