Leonard K. HIATT; Robert A. Bagby; Marvin Crabaugh; Gary W. Boatright; Ronald L. Roberson; Carl D. Houk; Jerrold B. Hutchings; Duane K. Hinkle; Larry L. Burback; Stephen J. Miller; Kim R. Hardman; Kenneth R. Covington; Michael E. Valentine; Gary L. Yanken; Patrick M. Herrley; Mike I. Carlson; Randall O. Swarthout; Sammy L. Cross; Darrell D. Miller; Ronald L. Stoddard; James D. Tolle; Larry S. Clark; Robert T. Epler; Richard W. Cavender; Dale Young; Robert F. McIntosh; Julian R. Nelson; Walter T. Gronek; Ronald E. Ostendorf; Ronald R. Johnson; Melvin E. Sayre; Robert F. Lannon; Gerald T. Dueling; Philip J. Eberhardt; Roxie L. Jackson; Russell P. Eggers; Ron G. Van Northwick; Thomas M. McMurtry; Larry R. Mann; Maurice F. McDonald; Donald A. Raschke; Cleo D. Schroeder; Kenneth W. McIntosh; Robert A. Podjenski; Gilbert R. Throm; Donald K. Peters; Robert G. Wenzel; Cecil B. Miller; Leroy W. Roth; James L. Wells; Charles F. Smartt; James W. Jenkins; John J. Stamate; Gerry W. Spinden; David E. Dupree; Donald R. Smith; James P. Manary; Ronald B. Hunt; Robert E. Williams; Dennis J. Smith; Gary E. Metcalf; Benny L. Covington; Robert E. Wedgwood; Norman R. Thomas; Jon L. Stone; Steven L. Brown; John R. Holloway; Warren H. Bush; Edward W. Berardino, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a Utah corporation; United Transportation Union, Defendants-Appellees,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Equal Employment Advisory Council, Amici Curiae.
Jerome J. SMITH; Michael R. Ramold; Michael X. Kosmicki; Richard J. McCune; Daniel L. Eastman; Donald E. Looker; Robert A. Harger; Steven L. Burbach; Donald S. Seghi; Roland G. Beard; Earl J. Vance; Bruce O. Stafford; Richard K. Loehning, Jr.; Tracy B. Miller; Gary L. Jones; Robert M. Hagy; William A. Myers; Gene F. Noonan; Kenneth J. Puchalski; Robert L. Keenan; Robert F. Garland; David A. Growe; Michael P. O'Neil; Timothy J. Hoppe; Albert G. Kelsch; Steven F. Massey; John M. Crawford; Tarrell L. Newman; Bill G. Hamilton; Verl W. Moore; Charles W. Rohe; Albert W. Greenwood; Gerald A. Gompert; Gary L. Katiepolt; Dick C. Jones; Jon Lutz; Charles D. Barnhill; Larry G. Wright; Thomas W. Schaefer; John C. Rosenstock; Steven E. Bishop; Roger G. Mazanec; Edward Jay Dietz; Steve V. Brew; Lavern L. Brown; Donald Masek; Donald Rosekrans; Robert H. Hall; Jack A. Reighard; Roger E. Rohrbouck; James Moritz; Harold Jones, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION; Burlington Northern Railroad Company, a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Equal Employment Advisory Council, Amici Curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 8, 1995.
September 8, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John W. McKendree, Denver, CO (Richard Rideout of Herschler, Freudenthal, Salzburg, Bonds & Rideout, P.C., Cheyenne, WY, with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs-appellants.
Douglas C. Herbert, Jr., of the Law Offices of Douglas C. Herbert, Washington, DC (Lani Schweiker Shelton of Douglas C. Herbert, Law Office, Washington, DC, and Brenda J. Council of Union Pacific Railroad Company, Omaha, NE, with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee Union Pacific Railroad.
Kevin C. Brodar, Associate General Counsel, United Transportation Union, Cleveland, OH, for United Transportation Union.
Lawrence M. Stroik, Burlington Northern Railroad, Fort Worth, TX (John A. Coppede of Sundahl, Powers, Kapp and Martin, Cheyenne, WY, with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee Burlington Northern Railroad Company.
James R. Neely, Jr., Deputy General Counsel; Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate General Counsel; Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel; and Paul D. Ramshaw, Attorney, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on the brief for amicus curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Robert E. Williams and Douglas S. McDowell, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, DC, on the brief for amicus curiae Equal Employment Advisory Council.
Before EBEL and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and COOK, Senior District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
This opinion resolves both Hiatt, et al. v. Union Pacific, et al. and Smith, et al. v. Burlington Northern, et al. The issues raised by the two cases are identical, and the cases were presented together at oral argument. We jointly refer to the plaintiffs in Hiatt and Smith as "Plaintiffs" and, similarly, to the various defendants as "Defendants."
The opinion of the district court, see Hiatt v. Union Pac...
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