POLICE ASS'N OF NEW ORLEANS v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Nos. 95-30541, 95-30637.

100 F.3d 1159 (1996)

The POLICE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, Through its President, Ronald J. CANNATELLA; Forrest Austin, Jr.; Albert Bowman; Kathleen Brown; Randall Chestnut; Roy Gibliant; Eric Hessler; Imbraguglio; Bedford Jones; Jerome Laviolette; Charles Little; Luther Lumpkin, III; Wesley Morris; Larry Nettles; Michael Nuessly; Leo Peters, Jr.; Elmon Randolph; Steven Smegal; Arthur Smock, III; Kenneth Solis; Michael Sposito; Brett Thorne; Frank Vaccarella; Keith Wehmeier; Gerald Young, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, etc., et al., Defendants, City of New Orleans, a Louisiana municipality, Defendant-Appellant. Larry WILLIAMS; Gustave Thomas; Willie Carter, Jr.; Edgar Morgan, Jr.; Ronal Bechet, Sr.; Patricia Lebeaux; Jeanne McGlory, On behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, A Municipal Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Marc Morial, In his capacity as Mayor of New Orleans; Richard Pennington, As Superintendent of Police of New Orleans; New Orleans Civil Service Commission; Sidney H. Cates, IV, Chairman, New Orleans Civil Service Commission; Gerri M. Elie, Doctor; William R. Forrester, Jr.; Glenda Jones Harris; John P. Nelson, Commission Members, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. DeSalvo, Edward K. Newman, New Orleans, LA, Jeffery Mark Lynch, Guste, Barnett & Shushan, New Orleans, LA, for all plaintiffs-appellees in No. 95-30541.

Avis Marie Russell, Annabelle H. Walker, Franz L. Ziblich, New Orleans City Attorney's Office, New Orleans, LA, for defendant-appellant.

Charles Stephen Ralston, Elaine R. Jones, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York City, Ronald Lawrence Wilson, New Orleans, LA, for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 95-30637.

Before WISDOM, EMILIO M. GARZA and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

On May 27, 1987, the City of New Orleans agreed to a consent decree (the "Decree") with a class of African-American police officers (the "Williams Class") who contended that the promotion and hiring policies of the New Orleans Police Department (the "NOPD") were discriminatory. The Decree, which ended 14 years of protracted litigation, established a system to govern hiring and promotion within the NOPD.

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