STATON v. BOEING CO.

No. 99-36086.

327 F.3d 938 (2003)

Eleanor STATON; Beverly Trotter; Kevin Biglow, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Solomon Williams; Shirley Miller; Deborah Woods; Wendy Kelly; Myron Knight; Michael Eckles; Donald Ballard; William Bell; Clarence Thompson; Doreen Ferguson; Cynthia Evans; Willie Wilson; Mary Dean; Brian Todd; Tim Jones; David Brawley; Mara Ferrari; Rhonda Capps; Charles Jones; David Roberts; Verlene Maholmes; Terry Fisher; Carol Calender; Evalean Moore; Ralph Wilson; Ronnie Mitchell; Theodeshia Knauls; Michael Marion, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Nadine McClam-Brown; Carla Abraham; Bertha Alexander; Shirley Allen; Billynda E. Anderson; Lawrence Andrews; Dorothy J. Ayers; Avis M. Banks; Jimmie L. Banks; Joyce A. Bates; Ray A. Bates; Ida M. Battles; Marshall Battles, Sr.; Terri M. Bean; Alfred Beasley; Vivian Jean Bell; Marcia L. Benford; Rosie J. Black; Adrienne Bland; Theresa Bozeman; Byron Breckenridge; John Bridgewater; Maceo E. Bridgewater; Annie Brooks; Johnnie Paul Brooks; Ronnie Brown; Simon Brown, Jr.; Mark A. Bufford; William Bumpers; Wilbert G. Burgess, Sr.; Henry F. Butler; Soloman C. Butts; Ellis Cameron; Harry Carlis; Tevis Carpenter; Ford Carr; Tamu Chandler; Betty Childers; Michael Childers; Ronald Clarke; Melchester Clemons; Gunice Colvin; Kent Copridge; Paul L. Coston, Jr.; Debra F. Coulter; Cephas L. Curtis; Angela C. Cravens; James Crump; Pauline Crump; Tracy Cunningham; Gilbert O. Dace; Clarence Dancer; Charles Daniels; Patricia Davis; Sam Davis; Charles L. Davison; Helen Marie Dean; Evonne W. Dogan; James E. Donaldson; Tonia Dowell; Alice Dunbar; Allen Dunbar; Throma Ann Dyas; Terry Edwards; Belinda Ellis; Bezley Ellison; Joseph Elmore; Abiodun Fanimokun; Sharon Fantroy; Archie Fields; Hicks Frank; Sherline Franklin; Allen W. Frazier; Moses E. Greasham; Freddie L. Grisby; Kevin C. Guice; Roderick W. Guice; Roy E. Hall; Charles H. Harden; Dennis Harris; Dorothy Harris; Leon Harris; Robert L. Harris; Wylo Harvey; Rosemarie W. Hauck; Eric D. Hayden; Fredrick Hightower, Jr.; Charles H. Hill; Larry Hollins; Theodore Holt; Delores Hood; Kay M. Horton; Verna J. Houston; Phillip Bruce Hutchins; Hattie L. Irving; Della M. Jamison; Johnnie L. Jefferson; Reginald P. Jenkins; Constance Johnson; Darla Johnson; Herbert G. Johnson; James Johnson; Kenneth Johnson; Sharon E. Johnson; Lecester Jones; Phyllis J. Jones; Brooks S. Kimbrough; Claudette Lawson; Doris Lenox; Lynn B. Leufroy; Walter G. Lewellen; Frederick Lipsey; Herbert E. Logan, Jr.; Virginia G. Logan; Presley T. Lorance; Anthony L. Lucas; Waymond Macone; Selicia Mallory; Mark D. Matthews; Rainard C. Mayhew; Larry D. McIntosh; Alberto A. McMiller; Helen D. Medcafe; Geraldine Moore; Tennie Moore; Wade Moore, Jr.; Stephen R. Mundine; Katherine Neal; Arthur Newton; Jacqueline Osborne; Linda M. Ouids; Ericka L. Owens; Lee E. Owens, Jr.; Leroy Parker; C. Eugene Paschal; Sandra L. Payne; Stacy Payne; Margaret Peach; Robert J. Pearson; Douglas Pegues; Herman L. Poole; Isaac M. Porter, Jr.; Rhonda Randle; James Ranson, Sr.; Etha Reagans; Rance H. Reed, Jr.; Tressa Reed; Brenda J. Richardson; Cynthia Ridge; Bettie Ridley; Melvin L. Ridley; Jackie Robinson; Robert L. Robinson II; Les L. Rogers; Fred Roseborough; T.D. Sanders; Donna N. Scott; Huey L. Scott; Vince E. Seymore; Maury J. Shaw; William L. Sims; David E. Singleton; David Skillman; Cleo P. Smith; John Smith, Jr.; Lucretia Smith; David A. Stallworth; Michael Stevens; Octauia Stevens; Carl Stovall; Joyce Sullivan; Idella Teague; Alphonso E. Thompson; Anthony Thompson; Donna Thompson; John F. Thompson; Tywanna F. Thompson; W.R. Thompson; Benjamin F. Tillman; David Tillman; Shomide Tokunbo; Anita Truitt; Michael Turner; Alan Ladd Tyson; Rachel Frazier-Vann; James L. Walker; Aaron Washington; Cecil R. Washington; Eric C. Waters; Charles E. Webb; Shannon J. Weldon; Rozell Wheaton; Leonardo R. White; Ernest M. Whitaker; Bobby L. Williams; Darryl Williams; Daryl D. Williams; Glen D. Williams, Sr.; Kenneth Wayne Williams; Lorry Williams; Sylvester Williams, II; Wilbert Williams; Patricia Wilson; Alfred M. Woods; Martha Ybarra; Jacquelyn L. Zeigler, Appellants, v. BOEING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, and Boeing North American, Inc., a Delaware Corp; McDonnell Douglas Corporation, a Maryland Corporation, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 29, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Epstein, Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for the Plaintiffs-Objectors-Appellants.

Bruce A. Harrell and Oscar E. Desper III, Harrell, Desper, Connell & Roesch, Seattle, Washington, and Charles K. Wiggins, Bainbridge, WA, for the Plaintiffs-Appellees.

C. Geoffrey Weirich and Maureen E. O'Neill, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Atlanta, GA, for the Defendants-Appellees.

Before: LAY, TROTT and BERZON, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Circuit Judge BERZON. Dissenting opinion by Circuit Judge TROTT.

BERZON, Circuit Judge.

ORDER

The panel majority opinion filed November 26, 2002, is withdrawn and the attached opinion is ORDERED filed.

With the filing of the attached opinion, a majority of the panel has voted to deny defendants/appellees' petition for rehearing. Judge Berzon has voted to deny the plaintiffs/appellees' and defendants/appellees' petitions for rehearing...

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