E.E.O.C. v. CROWN ZELLERBACH CORP.

Nos. 82-5455, 82-5570.

720 F.2d 1008 (1983)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROWN ZELLERBACH CORPORATION, Zellerbach Paper Company, Defendants-Appellees, Raymond B. Brown, Walter L. Cook, Thomas F. Gibbs, Herbert E. King, Sheddrick Charles Kinnebrew, Edgar G. Walker and Luther E. Washington, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justine S. Lisser, Atty., E.E.O.C., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

William C. Bottger, Jr., Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before FLETCHER and NELSON, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON, District Judge.


FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and intervenors appeal from a ruling of the district court that four-month disciplinary suspensions imposed on each of the intervenors did not violate the opposition clause of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a). The issue presented is whether black employees' conduct in writing a letter to the local school board, a customer of the employer, protesting an affirmative action award to the...

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