FREEDMAN v. AIR LINE STEWARDS & STEWARDESSES ASSOC.

Nos. 83-1930 to 83-1932.

730 F.2d 509 (1984)

Nancy FREEDMAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AIR LINE STEWARDS & STEWARDESSES ASSOC., LOCAL 550, TWU, AFL-CIO & Trans World Airlines, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, Intervenor-Appellee. Mary Ellen GILES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee, Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, Intervenor-Appellee. AIR LINE STEWARDS & STEWARDESSES ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 550, TWU, AFL-CIO, et al., Plaintiffs, and Carol Holmes, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee, Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Flaxman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Gordon B. Nash, Jr., Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, Ill., Steven A. Fehr, Jolley, Moran, Walsh, Hager & Gordon, Kansas City, Mo., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 9, 1984.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants here are former Trans World Airlines, Inc. ("TWA") stewardesses whose employment was terminated due to TWA's former "no motherhood" policy for female flight attendants. They are appealing from a decision of the district court refusing to amend a consent decree entered pursuant to a settlement agreement which resolved a suit based on the plaintiffs' claim of...

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