AM. FED. OF S., C., & MUN. EMP. v. STATE OF WASH.

Nos. 84-3569, 84-3590.

770 F.2d 1401 (1985)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO (AFSCME), et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al., Defendants-Appellants. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO (AFSCME), et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Sanders, Seattle, Wash., Daniel J. Popeo, George C. Smith, Washington, D.C., for Washington Legal Foundation.

Robert E. Williams, Thomas R. Bagby, Douglas S. McDowell, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Equal Employment Advisory Council.

Daniel E. Leach, Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, Washington, D.C., Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, Peter N. Hillman, New York City, for Washington Study Group.

Clint Bolick, K. Preston Oade, Jr., Maxwell A. Miller, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, Colo., for Mountain States Legal Foundation.

Ronald A. Zumbrun, John H. Findley, Anthony T. Caso, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, Cal., for Pacific Legal Foundation.

Davis, Wright, Todd, Riese & Jones, Thomas A. Lemly, Stephen M. Rummage, Robert G. Homchick, Seattle, Wash., for Asso. of Washington Business.

Winn, Newman & Associates, Winn Newman, Lisa Newell, Richard B. Sobol, Michael B. Trister, Washington, D.C., Cordes, Cordes & Younglove, Ed Younglove, Olympia, Wash., for AFSCME.

Christine O. Gregoire, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard A. Heath, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., for State of Wash.

Epstein, Becker, Borsody & Green, Frank C. Morris, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Eagle Forum Educ. & Legal Defense Fund, amicus.

Edith Barnett, Washington, D.C., for Nat. Center for Econmic Alternatives, amicus.

Mary L. Heen, Isabelle Katz Pinzler, Joan E. Bertin, E. Richard Larson, Burt Neuborne, New York City, Durning, Webster & Lonnquist, Judith A. Lonnquist, Seattle, Wash., for Nat. Committee on Pay Equity, et al., amicus.

Robert H. Chanin, Washington, D.C., Altshuler & Berzon, Marsha S. Berzon, San Francisco, Cal., Laurence Gold, Washington, D.C., for American Federation of Labor & Congress of Indus. Organizations, amicus.

Julius LeVonne Chambers, Barry L. Goldstein, Gail J. Wright, Charles Stephen Ralston, Penda D. Hair, New York City, for NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., amicus.

Marsha Levick, Emily Spitzer, New York City, for Women & The NOW Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, amicus.

Before WRIGHT and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and MacBRIDE, District Judge.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

In this class action affecting approximately 15,500 of its employees, the State of Washington was sued in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The class comprises state employees who have worked or do work in job categories that are or have been at least seventy percent female. The action was commenced for the class members by two unions, the American Federation...

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