UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY et al., Defendants.
Charles KING et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Willie C. MOREMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit Bhttps://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 22, 1981.
January 22, 1981.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Henrietta E. Turnquest, Decatur, Ga., for Charles King et al.
O. Peter Sherwood, Jack Greenberg, Judith Reed, New York City, for Willie C. Moreman et al.
Joel M. Cohn, E.E.O.C., Washington, D.C., for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.
Michael C. Murphy, Charles W. Whitney, Atlanta, Ga., Irving L. Gornstein, Atty., Appellate Sec., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Lutz Alexander Prager, Joel M. Cohn, Attys., E.E.O.C., Washington, D. C., for Georgia Power Co.
Adair, Goldthwaite & Daniel, P. A., Patrick M. Scanlon, James B. Coppess, Atlanta, Ga., for IBEW Local 84.
Before GEWIN, RONEY and FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs appeal from an order of the district court, 470 F.Supp. 649, modifying a 1974 decree with respect to a racially discriminatory seniority system at Georgia Power Company. The district court found it had become inequitable to enforce changes required in the seniority system by the original decree because a recent Supreme Court decision sustained bona fide seniority systems, even though they have...
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