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DANIELS v. PIPE FITTERS ASS'N, LOCAL UNION 597

No. 96-2457.

113 F.3d 685 (1997)

Frank DANIELS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PIPE FITTERS ASSOCIATION, LOCAL UNION 597, U.S.A., Defendant-Appellee, and Mechanical Contractors Association, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 5, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K. Turpin Carl, argued, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Steven B. Varick, McBride, Baker & Coles, Chicago, IL, Rita L. Martinez, Quaker Oats Co., Chicago, IL, Thomas M. Durkin, Charles F. Regan, argued, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Pipefitters Ass'n Local Union 597.

Arthur Caesar Chapman, argued, Chapman & Roin, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Mechanical Contractors Ass'n.

Before CUMMINGS, COFFEY, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Thirteen years ago, Frank Daniels began this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At trial in 1988 Daniels persuaded both the judge (who resolved the Title VII claim) and the jury (which resolved the § 1981 claim) that Local 597 of the Pipefitters Union had engaged in egregious, decades-long discrimination against its black members when referring pipefitters to jobs, in the process violating...

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