CONLIN v. BLANCHARD

No. 88-1982.

890 F.2d 811 (1989)

Richard F. CONLIN, Plaintiff, Richard L. Fitzpatrick, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James J. BLANCHARD, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Porter (argued), Hardig & McConnell, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for Richard F. Conlin and Richard L. Fitzpatrick, Roger A. Ruppal, and Richard J. Victorson.

Deborah A. Devine, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Lansing, Mich., for James J. Blanchard, Martha W. Griffiths, Frank J. Kelley, John R. Castillo, John F. Hueni, Robert H. Naftaly, Doug Ross, Elizabeth P. Howe, James P. Pitz, and C. Patrick Babcock.

Noel A. Gage, Scott D. Moore, Gage, Herzfeld & Rubin, Southfield, Mich., for John F. Dodge, Walter R. Greene, Patricia B. Johnson, and Alan A. May.

Dianne M. Rubin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Detroit, Mich., for Dorothy Haener, Benny Napoleon, Beberly Clark, Sondra L. Berlin, Eva Evans, Michael C. Hidalgo, and William Holly.

Merry A. Rosenberg, Office of the Attorney General of Michigan, Lansing, Mich., for Robert A. Bowman, and James A. Pitz.

Before NELSON and BOGGS, Circuit Judges; and WILHOIT, District Judge.


BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Richard L. Fitzpatrick, Roger A. Ruppal, and Richard J. Victorson appeal the district court's grant of a motion to dismiss in this civil rights complaint for sex discrimination against males under the State of Michigan's affirmative action plan. We affirm the dismissal of appellants Ruppal and Victorson based upon the statute of limitations, reverse the district court's summary affirmance of the plan based upon constitutional grounds...

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