PARKER v. BALTIMORE & O. R. CO.

No. 80-1095.

652 F.2d 1012 (1981)

Karl PARKER, Jr., Appellant, v. The BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY t/a The Chessie System — The B & O Railroad, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Cohn, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellant.

Morgan D. Hodgson with whom Peter L. Wellington, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge, and TAMM and MIKVA, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

Opinion filed by Circuit Judge TAMM, concurring in the result.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

The overt and blatant bigotry that marked the leading civil rights cases of an earlier year seldom supplies the gravamen of cases which now reach the appellate courts. Rather, the appeals are from decisions involving the more difficult problems in this field, none more difficult than the delicate balance of interests...

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