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CASTRO v. BEECHER

Civ. A. Nos. 70-1220-C, 74-2982-C, 72-3060-C and 73-269-C.

522 F.Supp. 873 (1981)

Pedro CASTRO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Nancy B. BEECHER, et al., Defendants. BOSTON CHAPTER, NAACP, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Nancy B. BEECHER, et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF BOSTON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 7, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peggy A. Wiesenberg, Judith S. Bernstein, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Ass'n, Margaret Hinkle, James S. Dittmar, Berman, Dittmar & Engle, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Terry F. Lenzner, Jonathan A. Schiller, Warren N. Eggleston, Rogovin, Stern, Huge & Lenzner, Washington, D. C., for City of Boston, defendant.

Harold J. Carroll, Corp. Counsel, Nick Fondar, Boston, Mass., for Police Commissioner of Boston.

Frank J. McGee, Marshfield, Mass., for intervenor Boston Police Patrolmen's Assn.

Betty E. Waxman, Alan Posner, Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., for State defendants.

OPINION

CAFFREY, Chief Judge.

These four cases, all of which have long since gone to judgment, are before the Court on motions filed by the plaintiffs in each case to modify prior remedial orders. All four cases raise substantially the same legal issue, i. e. may the City of Boston in conducting reductions in force in the Boston Police and Fire Departments decide which police officers and which firemen to terminate on the basis of seniority as directed by...

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