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SIMS v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY COM'N

Civ. A. Nos. 3708-N, 3739-N.

544 F.Supp. 420 (1982)

Clara SIMS and Ella Bell, Plaintiffs, Yvetta Martin; Autherine Williams; Vanessa M. Young; Caron Rowell; Eloyse K. Seamon; and Verna L. Ward, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMISSION; Mack McWhorter, W. F. Joseph, Jr., Frank Bray, Joel Barfoot, and John Knight, individually and as members of the Montgomery County Commission, their agents, servants, assigns, and successors in office; Montgomery City-County Personnel Board; Wade Moss, individually and as Director of the Montgomery City-County Personnel Board, his agents, servants, assigns, and successors in office; Walker Hobbie, Jr., individually and as Judge of Probate of Montgomery County; and Robert Smith, individually and as Chief Clerk, Montgomery County Probate Office, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Yvetta Martin; Autherine Williams; Vanessa M. Young; Caron Rowell; Eloyse K. Seamon; and Verna L. Ward, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The CITY OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, a municipal corporation; The Water Works and Sanitary Sewer Board of Montgomery, Alabama, a municipal corporation; Montgomery City-County Personnel Board, a state agency; Walker Hobbie, Jr., individually and as Judge of Probate of Montgomery County; and Robert Smith, individually and as Chief Clerk in the Montgomery County Probate Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

July 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Beck, Baxley, Beck & Dillard, Montgomery, Ala., for Walker Hobbie and Bob Smith.

Robert C. Black and Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, Ala., for City of Montgomery and Ronnie Adkins.

Joel F. Dubina, Jones, Murray, Stewart & Yarbrough, Montgomery, Ala., for Water Works & Sewer Bd.

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Gray, Seay & Langford and John L. Carroll, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs Clara Sims and Ella Bell.

John C. Bell, U. S. Atty., and Calvin C. Pryor, Asst. U. S. Atty., M. D. Ala., Montgomery, Ala., and Marybeth Martin, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S. plaintiff.

W. Troy Massey, Massey, Means & Thomas, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-intervenors.

J. Knox Argo, Argo & Enslen, Montgomery, Ala., for Montgomery County Com'n.

Robert D. Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, Ala., for Montgomery City-County Personnel Bd. and Wade Moss.

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

In the present phase of the proceedings in this action, the plaintiff-intervenors Yvetta Martin, Autherine Williams, Vanessa M. Young, Caron Rowell, and Verna L. Ward (hereinafter sometimes referred to collectively as "the intervenors") claim that they were denied employment as probate clerks in the Montgomery County probate office on the basis of their race, which is black, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e...

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