BELL v. BOLGER

No. 82-1417.

708 F.2d 1312 (1983)

William F. BELL, Appellant, v. William F. BOLGER, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Dittmeier, U.S. Atty., E.D. Mo., Wesley D. Wedemeyer, Asst. U.S. Atty., E.D. Mo., St. Louis, Mo., Stephen E. Alpern, Associate Gen. Counsel, Office of Labor Law, U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C., Gregg R. Sackrider, Sr. Asst. Regional Labor Counsel, Office of Labor Law, U.S. Postal Service, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Louis Gilden and Janet E. Young, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and FAGG, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

William F. Bell, a security police officer for the Postal Inspection Service, commenced this action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, alleging that he had been denied a promotion by the United States Postal Service because of his race and his age. Bell is a black male. He was forty-three years old when he applied for the position of Labor Relations Assistant, along with forty other applicants. Bell was...

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