WALLS v. MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

Nos. GC 73-5-WK, 75-108-WK.

542 F.Supp. 281 (1982)

Dorothy WALLS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

May 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenville, Miss., Eugene Martin-Leff, New York City, for plaintiffs.

John Hailman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., Thomas E. Childs, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

In these consolidated complex employment discrimination actions, private plaintiffs and the United States challenge procedures of Mississippi public welfare officials for the selection of three classes of employees as racially discriminatory in violation of federal regulatory, statutory, and constitutional law. The issues of liability and relief were bifurcated on December 6, 1976, and, commencing July 5, 1978, District...

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