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COALITION FOR EQUITABLE MINORITY PARTICIPATION IN ARCHITECTURAL CONTRACTS IN TENNESSEE (COMPACT) v. METRO. GOV. OF NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON CTY., TENNESSEE

No. 84-6026.

786 F.2d 227 (1986)

COALITION FOR EQUITABLE MINORITY PARTICIPATION IN ARCHITECTURAL CONTRACTS IN TENNESSEE (COMPACT); McKissack and McKissack and Thompson, Architects and Engineers, Inc.; L. Quincy Jackson; and Ronald M. Harris and Donald T. Harris, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE; Richard H. Fulton; Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority; Robert C.H. Mathews, Jr.; John H. Dewitt; Miller Lanier; Frank Gorrell; Toby Wilt; David K. Wilson; James T. Fulghum; William Moore; Metropolitan Board of Education of Davidson County, Tennessee; Kent M. Weeks; Dorothy A. Gupton; Pat Bentrup; C. Dewey Branstetter, Jr.; Isaac Northern, Jr.; June J. Lambert; N. Tom Hightower; Charles E. Gann; Vern Denney; Charles Frazier; Bill W. Wise; Hart-Freeland-Roberts, Inc., Architects and Engineers; Batey M. Gresham; and Fleming W. Smith, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Russell T. Perkins, Williams & Dinkins, Richard Dinkins, Nashville, Tenn., Eleanor Fox (argued), N.Y.U. School of Law, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Anthony Robinson, Timothy Brown, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.

Jack Robinson, Joel Leeman, Gullett, Sanford and Robinson, Nashville, Tenn., for Gresham, Smith & Partners.

George E. Barrett (argued), Barrett & Ray, Nashville, Tenn., for Williams, Russell & Johnson.

William F. Howard, Donald W. Jones, James D. Luther, Metropolitan Dept. of Law, Nashville, Tenn.

Peter H. Curry, Boult, Cummings, Conners and Berry, Nashville, Tenn., for Hart-Freeland-Roberts.

Barry L. Howard, Wade B. Cowan, Gracey, Maddin, Cowan and Bird, Nashville, Tenn., for Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.

Randall C. Ferguson, Manier, White, Herod, Hollabaugh & Smith, P.C., Susan Emery McGannon, Richard M. Riebeling, Samual W. Bartholomew, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before ENGEL, KENNEDY and RYAN, Circuit Judges.

CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants are the Coalition for Equitable Minority Participation in Architectural Contracts in Tennessee ("COMPACT") and the three black-owned architectural firms that comprise the coalition, as well as the individual members of the firms. Plaintiffs brought suit claiming wide-ranging violations of their civil rights with regard to the practice of letting and accepting bids for architectural services in the Nashville...

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