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STOTTS v. MEMPHIS FIRE DEPT.

No. 80-1469.

679 F.2d 579 (1982)

Carl W. STOTTS, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Fred L. Jones, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MEMPHIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, Robert W. Walker, City of Memphis, Joseph Sabatini, Defendants-Appellees, D. L. Orders, W. R. Wilkinson, Jackie Parminter, Warner C. Uselton, Jr., Jack Presgrove, Harold Wallace, Harvey Jenkins, Fred E. Person, Jr., Preston Lee Dunn, Charley Jones, John W. Blanton, for themselves and all other non-minority employees of the Memphis Fire Department, similarly situated, Proposed Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 7, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan M. Norwood, Richardson, Norwood & Richardson, Memphis, Tenn., for appellants.

Richard B. Fields, Clifford D. Pierce, Jr., City Atty., Edward R. Young, Louis P. Britt, III, for appellees.

Before KEITH and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and DUNCAN, District Judge.

KEITH, Circuit Judge.

On February 16, 1977, Plaintiff Carl Stotts filed a class action alleging that the hiring and promotion policies of the Memphis Fire Department were racially discriminatory. After three years of internecine discovery and over four months of intense negotiations, a consent decree settled the action. The decree was preliminarily approved and subsequently posted for comment on April 25, 1980. Neither class members nor the Firefighters Union, the...

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