IN RE PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.

No. 88-5509.

905 F.2d 1457 (1990)

In re PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., MATERNITY LEAVE PRACTICES & FLIGHT ATTENDANT WEIGHT PROGRAM LITIGATION. Susan Gail LEONARD, on behalf of herself as an individual and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., Defendant-Appellant, Air Line Pilots Association, et al., Defendants. Barbara Ann GARDNER, Sherry Knipple and Marilyn White, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., Defendant-Appellant, Transport Workers Union, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Klock, Jr., Carlos A. Batlle, Miami, Fla., for Pan American World Airways, Inc.

Donald B. Myers, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CLARK and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and RUBIN, Senior Circuit Judge.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Senior Circuit Judge:

A female flight attendant, discharged from her position for failing to comply with her company's maternity-leave policy, filed a class action against the company, challenging the policy on the ground that it was discriminatory on the basis of sex. The district court found that the policy was discriminatory and awarded relief to the complaining flight attendant, despite the company's...

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