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EASTLAND v. FREEMAN

Civ. A. No. 73-G-0487-NW.

528 F.Supp. 862 (1981)

Frank L. EASTLAND, individually; Sanford L. Long, individually; William N. James, Robert H. Nash and Louie J. Sheffield, individually and as representatives of a class consisting of all past and present black salary policy employees who are represented by the Salary Policy Employee Panel of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Office of Agricultural and Chemical Development from January 17, 1973, until the present, Plaintiffs, v. S. David FREEMAN, Richard M. Freeman, and Robert N. Clement, in their official capacity as members of the Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley Authority; Salary Policy Employee Panel; Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Alabama, Northwestern Division.

December 15, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan W. Reeves, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., Paul C. Saunders and Ralph McAfee, Crayath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, Richard T. Seymour and Stephen L. Spitz, Lawyer's Committee for Civ. Rights Under the Law, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Herbert S. Sanger, Jr., Justin M. Schwamm, Sr., Thomas F. Fine, A. Jackson Woodall, Jr., and Larry S. Bush, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant TVA.

Bernard E. Bernstein, Bernstein, Susano, Stair & Cohen, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant Salary Policy Emp. Panel.

Melvin Radowitz, Jacobs, Jacobs & Davis, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant Tennessee Valley Trades & Labor Council.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GUIN, District Judge.

This cause came before the court after a bench trial held from August 11 through 22, 1980, in Florence, Alabama, and from September 29 through October 23, 1980, in Birmingham, Alabama. The bench trial involved individual claims of plaintiffs Frank L. Eastland and Sanford L. Long, and the class action, which is the subject of this memorandum opinion. The claims of Mr. Eastland and Mr. Long are considered in separate...

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