ANDERSON v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE

No. 89-3422.

915 F.2d 313 (1990)

Nelison ANDERSON, Harold Davis, David Cain, James Heflin, Ernest Vernon, and Jesse Reason, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MaNina M. Harper; Lewis Myers, Jr., James Childs, Jr., Childs, Myers & Willis; and Calvita J. Frederick, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Steven H. Adelman, John A. McDonald, Carla J. Rozycki, and Linda R. Winter, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before WOOD, Jr., FLAUM and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


HARINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

"Contumacious — perverse in resisting authority, stubbornly disobedient."1 That is the word that the district judge used to describe the conduct of the plaintiffs and their attorneys. Because we cannot say that the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the plaintiffs' suit, we affirm.

The plaintiffs are "supervisors" at United Parcel Service, more commonly known as "UPS."...

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