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ROBERTS v. ST. REGIS PAPER CO.

No. 79-2394.

653 F.2d 166 (1981)

Fred ROBERTS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ST. REGIS PAPER COMPANY, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B

August 10, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Booth, Jacksonville, Fla., for International Ass'n of Machinists.

Benjamin Wyle, Erwin J. Shustak, New York City, for United Paperworkers International Union.

William L. Durden, Jacksonville, Fla., Guy Farmer, Washington, D. C., for St. Regis Paper Co.

Mahon, Mahon & Farley, Joseph S. Farley, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., Terry R. Yellig, Washington, D. C., for International Broth. of Elec. Workers.

Algia R. Cooper, Tallahassee, Fla., Jack Greenberg, Clyde E. Murphy, New York City, for Fred Roberts et al.

Vella M. Fink, Lutz Alexander Prager, Attys., Lorraine L. Davis. E.E.O.C., Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before KRAVITCH and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, District Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents three questions arising from a 1972 consent decree. Appellees are a class of black employees who in 1970 brought an employment discrimination suit against appellants, their employer and representative labor unions, which suit culminated in the consent decree at issue. In 1979, appellees filed motions for partial summary judgment and preliminary injunction seeking enforcement of the decree; appellants responded that the...

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