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DANIELS v. PIPEFITTERS' ASS'N LOCAL UNION NO. 597

Nos. 90-3124, 90-3261.

945 F.2d 906 (1991)

Frank DANIELS, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. PIPEFITTERS' ASSOCIATION LOCAL UNION NO. 597, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1991.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Stainthorp (argued), Peter Schmiedel, Peoples Law Office, Robin B. Potter, Mark S. Stein, Potter & Schaffner, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant.

Steven B. Varick (argued), McBride, Baker & Coles, A. Denison Weaver, Hugh J. McCarthy, Robert P. Lyons, Nancy J. Doyle, David M. Lefkow, Hugh J. McCarthy, Jr., McCarthy & Associates, Marvin Gittler, Asher, Gittler, Greenfield, Cohen & D'Alba, Chicago, Ill., Sally M. Armstrong, O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and NOLAND, Senior District Judge.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

The backdrop to this case of individual racial discrimination is the historic resistance within the building trades in the Chicago area to accepting racial and ethnic minorities into their ranks. The plaintiff, Frank Daniels, is black. He was able to get his start as a pipefitter and welder on account of the Chicago Plan, a government-sponsored directive designed to increase minority representation in the construction industry.

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