Joe Vernon SEARS, an individual, in person and for all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants,
v.
Albert L. BENNETT, C. J. Skelton, Archie N. Jones, Forest D. Tollett, John W. Landrum, Lawson C. Spencer, Thomas H. White, Earlie Nash, Aubrey A. Robinson, Edward Rawlins, John W. Cole, Charles Majors, Jr., Jesse J. Smith, Paul H. Stewart, Jimmy E. Brown, Carl E. Chester, Ray E. Landrum, Raymond Wiley, Elgie Crow and Ellis Johnson; Criscel Kemp, A. M. Bennett, A. L. Woolfolk, T. C. Luckey and W. W. Seymour, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants,
The BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant,
v.
The ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY, and United Transportation Union, successor to Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, a labor organization, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees.
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Argued March 13, 1980.
Decided March 11, 1981.
Rehearing Denied May 11, 1981.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Terry G. Paup, and Lee H. Woodard of Woodard, Blaylock, Hernandez, Pilgreen & Roth, Wichita, Kan. (Chester I. Lewis of Lewis, Davis & Mitchell, Wichita, Kan., with them, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees and cross-appellants Joe Vernon Sears, et al.
Charles R. Judge, St. Louis, Mo. (William B. Smith of Dubail, Judge, Kilker, O'Leary & Smith, St. Louis, Mo., and E. Lee Kinch of Ratner, Mattox, Ratner, Ratner & Barnes, Wichita, Kan., with him, on brief), for defendant-appellant and cross-appellee United Transportation Union.
Shelley J. Venick, Chicago, Ill. (Ronald A. Lane, Chicago, Ill., J. B. Reeves, Roth A. Gatewood and Thomas R. Conklin, Topeka, Kan., with her, on brief), for defendant-appellant and cross-appellee Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
William H. Ng, E.E.O.C., Washington, D. C. (Issie L. Jenkins, Acting Gen. Counsel, Joseph T. Eddins, Associate Gen. Counsel, and Beatrice Rosenberg, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with him, on brief), for amicus curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Before SETH, Chief Judge, and HOLLOWAY and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
Rehearing Denied in No. 78-1995 May 11, 1981.
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (Santa Fe) and the United Transportation Union (UTU)1 appeal from a judgment holding that they violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII or the Act), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., by perpetuating the effects of prior discrimination in a nonbona fide seniority system. Plaintiffs — black train...
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