REYNOLDS v. ROBERTS

No. 98-6102.

251 F.3d 1350 (2001)

Johnny REYNOLDS, individually and on behalf of himself and as a representative of a class of black employees of the Highway Department, State of Alabama, similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, William Adams, Cheryl Caine, Tim Colquitt, William Flowers, et al., Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. G.M. ROBERTS, in his official capacity as Director of the Alabama Department of Transportation, Thomas G. Flowers, individually and as Director of Personnel Department, State of Alabama; et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Decided May 23, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann K. Wiggins, Richard J. Ebbinghouse, Abigail P. Van Alstyne, Robert L. Wiggins, Jr., Kimberly C. Page, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, P.C., C. Dennis Hughes, Thomas R. Elliott, Jr., London & Yancey, LLC, Lisa Wright Borden, Berkowitz, Lefkovits, Isom & Kushner, Birmingham, AL, William Patton Gray, Jr., Gay & Associates, Montgomery, AL, Evan M. Tager, Michael E. Lackey, Jr., Sharon Swingle, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr., J. Michael Cooper, Richard Scott Clark, Fitzpatrick, Cooper & Clark, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jon Craig Goldfarb, Gregory O. Wiggins, Russell Wayne Adams, Stanley Wade Logan, Kell A. Simon, Scott A. Gilliland, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, Styephen L. Scott, London & Yancey, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Charles T. Lester, Jr., Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and HULL, Circuit Judges, and PROPST, District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This is the latest in a series of appeals arising out of a dispute involving the Alabama Department of Transportation (the "Department"), classes of black merit system employees and prospective merit system employees (the plaintiffs), and a class of white employees (the "Adams Intervenors"). See Reynolds v. Roberts, 202 F.3d 1303 (11th Cir.2000) ("Reynolds I"); Reynolds v. Roberts,

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