ROBY v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RY. CO.

No. 84-1640.

775 F.2d 959 (1985)

Willie Lee ROBY, Lee Otis Gordon, and Cab Willingham, Appellants, v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY CO.; United Transportation Union Local No. 462; and United Transportation Union Local No. 116, Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1985.

As Amended November 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Hunt, Pine Bluff, Ark., for appellants.

Spencer Robinson, Pine Bluff, Ark., for St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co.

Thomas A. Carraway, Birmingham, Ala., for U.T.U., Local 462.

Before ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and HARPER, Senior District Judge.


FAGG, Circuit Judge.

Willie Lee Roby, Lee Otis Gordon, and Cab Willingham (Appellants) appeal from the district court's order decertifying a class of black employees purportedly discriminated against by the defendant St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (Railroad) in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq.) and from the district court's judgment in favor of the Railroad...

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