REYNOLDS v. SHEET METAL WORKERS, LOCAL 102

No. 80-1378.

702 F.2d 221 (1981)

Earl REYNOLDS, et al., Appellees, v. SHEET METAL WORKERS, LOCAL 102, Sheet Metal and Air-Conditioning Contractors National Association, Joint Apprenticeship Committee for Sheet Metal Workers, Local 102, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Dale, Washington, D.C., with whom Thomas P. McErlean and Patrick J. Ogden, Jr., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Martin D. Schneiderman and Seth Goldberg, Washington, D.C., with whom John D. Alkire and Stephen L. Spitz, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees. Richard T. Seymour, Washington, D.C., also entered an appearance for appellees.

Before WILKEY and MIKVA, Circuit Judges, and JAMES F. GORDON, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a preliminary injunction entered in a class action alleging wide-spread discrimination against blacks in the union sheet metal trade in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. The appellants were enjoined from relying on apprentice selection criteria that, according to appellees, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to...

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