HILL v. WESTERN ELEC. CO., INC.

No. 80-1279.

672 F.2d 381 (1982)

Ollie T. HILL, John W. Ward, Charles R. Merriwether, Jr., Edward H. Minatee, Minnie Marble, Mary E. Carter, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Appellants, v. WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC., Appellee. Equal Employment Advisory Council, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 1, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graeme Bush, Washington, D. C. (Paul S. Reichler, James A. Beat, Jeffrey A. Burt, Arnold & Porter, Geoffrey Judd Vitt, Washington, D. C., Washington Lawyers Committee on brief), for appellants.

Zachary D. Fasman, Washington, D. C. (Susan L. Segal, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and RICHARD L. WILLIAMS, United States District Judge, sitting by designation.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 28, 1982.

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, three unsuccessful applicants for employment with Western Electric Company (Western) challenge the denial of their motion to intervene in a class action against Western as representatives of a portion of the class consisting of blacks and females who have discriminatorily been denied employment at Western's Arlington, Virginia facility. We vacate the...

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