REED v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 82-1073.

703 F.2d 170 (1983)

William REED, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and United Auto Workers, Local Union 276, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Brice Cunningham, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Cravens & Munn, Ira Butler, Michael A. McConnell, Fort Worth, Tex., Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Martin & Unis, Royal H. Brin, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for General Motors.

James H. Baumgartner, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for the class & certain named plaintiffs.

Before RANDALL and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and McDONALD, District Judge.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Certain class representatives and dissident members of a class certified under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ask that we overturn an approval by the trial court of a class settlement. Finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in approving the settlement and articulated its reasons for doing so with clarity and completeness, we affirm.

In March 1976, William Reed and others, on behalf of a class...

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