ADAMS v. PROCTOR & GAMBLE MFG. CO.

No. 81-1197.

678 F.2d 1190 (1982)

Genevieve S. ADAMS; Louise Bertha; Algerie R. (Kelley) Brigerman; Anne Brown; Carrie B. Chaffin; Leila B. Harthanson; Loretta M. Hinkle; Nellie Kern; Martha McGinn; Bertha Mabray; Anna M. Miller; Dorothy N. Shawker; Claretha Smith; Lorrayne M. Soethe; Margie Stover; Shirley S. Sunderland; Ethel Wimpling, Appellants, v. The PROCTOR & GAMBLE MANUFACTURING CO., Appellee. E.E.O.C., Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Blum, Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

Colleen M. O'Connor, Washington, D. C. (Leroy D. Clark, Gen. Counsel, Philip B. Sklover, Acting Associate Gen. Counsel, Vincent Blackwood, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on brief), for amicus curiae.

John A. McGuinn, Washington, D. C. (Guy Farmer, Farmer, Wells, McGuinn, Flood, Sibal & Bechtel, Washington, D. C., Thomas B. Eastman, Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., T. L. Overbey, Legal Dept., Cincinnati, Ohio, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

In 1976 the EEOC brought an employment discrimination action under § 706(f)(1) of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(1)1 (1976), against Proctor & Gamble, on behalf of more than two dozen employees who had filed charges with the agency. During the three-year discovery period that followed no Proctor & Gamble employee availed herself of the statutory right under § 706(f)(1) to...

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