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ADAMS v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

Nos. 81-2174, 82-1368 and 82-1369.

736 F.2d 992 (1984)

J.W. ADAMS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Sparrows Point, Maryland; United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Local 2609; United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Local 2610, United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Appellees. Alfred Franklin SMITH, Leroy S. Aiken, William C. Bland, Leford T. Davis, Appellants, and Bernard Lane, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Sparrows Point, Maryland and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Local 2609, and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Local 2610 and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Appellees. Alfred Franklin SMITH, Leroy S. Aiken, William C. Bland, Leford T. Davis, Appellees, and Bernard Lane, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant, and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, Locals 2609 and 2610, United Steelworkers of America, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luther C. West, Baltimore, Md. (West, Carey, Frame & Barnstein, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants J.W. Adams, et al., and Alfred Franklin Smith, et al.

John H. Morris, Jr., Washington, D.C. (Charles M. Kerr, Leslie A. Vial, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Jeremiah A. Collins, Washington, D.C. (Robert M. Weinberg, James D. Holzhauer, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., I. Duke Avnet, Baltimore, Md., Bernard Kleiman, Chicago, Ill., General Counsel, United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC; Carl B. Frankel, Associate General Counsel, United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Pittsburgh, Pa., on brief), for appellees United Steelworkers of America AFL-CIO-CLC, and its Locals 2609 and 2610.

Before WIDENER, HALL, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

After this broad racial discrimination case had been pending for nearly ten years, the district court finally denied class certification and the five named plaintiffs settled their individual claims, after which a new group of four was allowed to intervene for the purpose of appealing the denial of class certification.* Because the claims of the named plaintiffs were never stated with the requisite specificity, we hold that...

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