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EDWARDS v. CITY OF HOUSTON

Nos. 93-2315, 93-2476.

37 F.3d 1097 (1994)

Dorothy A. EDWARDS, et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF HOUSTON, Defendant-Appellee, v. Terry HUGHES, individually and as a Representative of the Houston Airport Police Officers' Association and its Officers and Sergeants of the former Airport Police Force and Houston Police Patrolmen's Union, Intervenors-Plaintiffs, Movant-Appellants, and McLoy Medlock, Richard Humphrey, Willie Fields and Bennie L. Green, Movants-Appellants. Dorothy A. EDWARDS, et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF HOUSTON, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee, v. HOUSTON POLICE PATROLMEN'S UNION, ETC., and the individual peace officers identified in appendix A., an affiliate of The International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO, Local 109, Intervenor-Plaintiff and Movant-Appellant, and McLoy Medlock, Richard Humphrey, Willie Fields and Bennie L. Green, Consolidated-Plaintiffs and Movant-Appellants, and Doug Elder and Mark Clark, individually and as representatives of the general membership of the Houston Police Officers Association and all Class A Police Officers holding the Rank of Police Officer and Sergeant of Police, Movant-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 10, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clinard J. Hanby, Essmyer & Hanby, Houston, TX, for Hughes.

Stuart M. Nelkin, Joan M. Lucci-Bain, Houston, TX, for Houston Police.

Jacqueline E. Medlock, Houston, TX, for Medlock, Humphrey, Field and Green.

O.F. Jones, III, Victoria, TX, amicus curiae.

John E. Fisher, Benjamin L. Hall, III, City Atty., Houston, TX for City of Houston.

Richard T. Seymour, Sharon R. Vinick, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Dorothy Edwards, et al.

Joan M. Lucci Bain, Houston, TX, for Houston Police Patrolemen Union.

Fred A. Keyes, Jr. Gen. Counsel, Houston Police Officers Assn., Houston, TX, for Elder & Clark and Houston Police Officers Assn.

Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, DeMOSS and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

REYNALDO G. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Organizations representing different members of the Houston Police Department sought to intervene in a consent decree entered into by the City of Houston and a class of black and hispanic police officers. The district court denied intervention in the underlying case and also intervention for purposes of appeal. The organizations appeal the denial of these motions and also claim that the consent decree violates Title VII and the Equal...

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