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ROBINSON v. POLAROID CORP.

No. 83-1619.

732 F.2d 1010 (1984)

William C. ROBINSON, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. POLAROID CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Shapiro, Boston, Mass., with whom Lynn Weissberg, and Stern & Shapiro, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Mark S. Brodin, Boston, Mass., New England School of Law, and Marjorie Heins, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Boston, Mass., on brief for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Ass'n, amici curiae.

J. Harold Flannery, Boston, Mass., with whom Laurence S. Fordham, Sandra L. Lynch, Robert S. Sanoff, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Circuit Judge, and GIERBOLINI, District Judge.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The named plaintiffs in these consolidated actions are four black individuals who were laid off in 1974 from salaried positions by defendant Polaroid Corporation in the course of a substantial cutback in the company's work force due to economic conditions. On behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, plaintiffs sued in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging, inter alia, that the layoffs...

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