U.S. v. CITY OF MONTGOMERY, ALA.

Civ. A. Nos. 3739-N, 75-19-N.

731 F.Supp. 436 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Sidney Williams, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The CITY OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants, Gordon M. Ledbetter, and John D. Shumway, Defendant-Intervenors. Carolyn JORDAN, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Sandra M. Pierce-Hanna, etc., et al. Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. John WILSON, etc., et al., Defendants, Gordon M. Ledbetter and John D. Shumway, Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

May 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marybeth Martin, Employment Litigation Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff U.S.

Randall C. Morgan, Montgomery, Ala., for City of Montgomery.

Robert D. Segall, Montgomery, Ala., for Montgomery City-County Pers. Bd.

Donald Watkins, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-intervenor Williams.

Thomas M. Goggans, Montgomery, Ala., for white male police officers of the City of Montgomery and Ledbetter, defendant-intervenors.

Kenneth L. Thomas, Massey, Means & Thomas, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-intervenors Williams, et al.)

J. Richard Cohen, Southern Poverty Law Center, M. Wayne Sabel, Argo, Enslen, Holloway & Sabel, Montgomery, Ala., for Pierce & Oyler.

Robert C. Black, Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, Ala., for all defendants except Wade L. Moss and Montgomery City-County Personnel Bd.

Robert D. Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, Ala., for Wade L. Moss and Montgomery City-County Personnel Bd.

David M. Smith, Gregory H. Hawley, Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale, Birmingham, Ala., and George B. Azar, Azar & Azar, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants Folmar, Wilson, McGilvray, Eckerman, Cooper & Duffee.

Julian McPhillips, McPhillips, DeBardelaben & Hawthorne, and Gary E. Atchison, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-intervenor Boyd.


ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

These two lawsuits constitute a challenge to, among other things, the promotion practices of the Police Department of the City of Montgomery, Alabama, as being racially and sexually discriminatory. On February 21, 1989, defendants City of Montgomery, et al., (the "city defendants") filed a motion for declaratory relief asking that this court approve their intention to promote, under a court-ordered interim promotion...

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