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GILL v. MONROE COUNTY DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES

No. 983, Docket 88-7979.

873 F.2d 647 (1989)

Irvin GILL, Robert Zieglar, Katherine Harris, Marie Fitzhugh, Inez Page (Hedman), Dorothy Dobson, Inez Charles, Alice Zealy (Walters), George Holmes (Rasheed Abdul Shareef), Enoch Morrison, Vivian Silas, Salena Mathews, Annie Hicks, Grace Rutherford, Stella Holmes McDonald, Daisy Mae Banks, Luz Martinez and Sadie Johnson, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MONROE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, James Reed, Director of Monroe County Department of Social Services, Monroe County Civil Service Commission, Office of Civil Service and Personnel of Monroe County, Fred Lapple, Executive Director of Civil Service and Personnel of Monroe County, Gabriel Russo, Director of Human Resources of Monroe County, Monroe County, New York State Department of Social Services, Phillip L. Tota, Commissioner of New York State Department of Social Services, New York State Department of Civil Service and Ersa H. Poston, President, New York State Department of Civil Service, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmelyn Logan-Baldwin, Rochester, N.Y. (Ronald L. Ellis, Judith Reed, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

A. Vincent Buzard, Rochester, N.Y., for Monroe County defendants-appellees.

Douglas S. Cream, Buffalo, N.Y., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, of counsel), for New York State defendants-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, PRATT, and MINER, Circuit Judges.

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs initiated this lawsuit in November 1975 against the Monroe County Department of Social Services and others, alleging discrimination in hiring and promotion and charging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The State of New York was later added as a defendant.

Among other claims, the plaintiffs alleged that...

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