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JONES v. MacMILLAN BLOEDEL CONTAINERS, INC.

No. 81-1188.

685 F.2d 236 (1982)

Robert JONES, Sr., Irving Gaines, Viola Williams, Arbeck Williams, Jr., Thomas Jerrod, Charles Hampton, Harold Johnson, Leonard O'Neal, Dowayne Peterson, Henry Anderson, Jerry Trotter, Samuel Alfred, J. C. Waller, Hershel Watson, Arthur Moore, Vernon Ray Johnson, Emma Stewart and Maurice Shavers, Appellants, v. MacMILLAN BLOEDEL CONTAINERS, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 13, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Barnard, argued, John E. Campion, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee MacMillan Bloedel Containers, Inc.

John W. Walker, Little Rock, Ark., Jack Greenberg, Ronald L. Ellis, argued, New York City, for appellants.

Before HEANEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, and REGAN, Senior District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 13, 1982.

McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

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