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PEGUES v. MISSISSIPPI STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

No. 88-4812.

899 F.2d 1449 (1990)

Rosie Lee PEGUES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. MISSISSIPPI STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 7, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan D. Garrick, Leo T. Aragon, Fred J. Lotterhos, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

Richard T. Seymour, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Daniel B. Edelman, Yablonski, Both & Edelman, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before WISDOM, JOHNSON, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding relief in a Title VII discrimination suit against the Mississippi State Employment Service (MSES), a state employment referral agency. Allegedly, MSES discriminated on the basis of race and gender in referring applicants to job openings listed with it. The district court awarded the plaintiffs, a class of black and female applicants to the MSES Bolivar County office, over $2.8 million in back pay and...

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