PLUMMER v. CHEMICAL BANK

Nos. 289, 298, Dockets 81-7528, 81-7546.

668 F.2d 654 (1982)

Roderick PLUMMER, Raymond W. Armorer, Neville F. Caesar, Gwendolyn Moore, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHEMICAL BANK, Defendant-Appellant. Miguel A. Oppenheimer, Louis Straker, Herman L. Clark, James Morrison, Theodore Ferguson and Herman I. Taitt, Objectors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith P. Vladeck, New York City (Vladeck, Elias, Vladeck & Engelhard, Joseph J. Garcia, Richard S. Corenthal and Andrew Schulz, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ronald M. Green, New York City (Epstein Becker Borsody & Green and Susan Schenkel-Savitt, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Sidney B. Silverman, New York City (Silverman & Harnes, Joan T. Harnes and Martin H. Olesh, New York City, on the brief), for objectors-appellees Herman I. Taitt, Louis Straker, Herman L. Clark, James Morrison and Miguel A. Oppenheimer.

Jose A. Rivera, Brooklyn, N. Y., for objector-appellee Theodore L. Ferguson.

William L. Robinson and Beatrice Rosenberg, Washington, D. C., (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law and Donna R. Lenhoff, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D. C., on the brief), amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellants.

Before LUMBARD, MOORE and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs and the defendant both appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Conner, J., 91 F.R.D. 434, denying approval of the proposed settlement of an employment discrimination class action. The appeal which we agreed to expedite is properly before us. Carson v. American Brands, Inc., 450 U.S. 79, 101 S.Ct. 993, 67 L.Ed.2d 59 (1981). For reasons...

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