Legal Opinion
31 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1707, 32 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,668 Gloria Holmes v. Continental Can Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 9, 1983No. 80-9026PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, from a final order of the district court approving settlement of an antidis-crimination class action brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. and section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Appellants object to the intraclass distribution of a $43,775 lump sum back pay award, under which the eight named plaintiffs would receive half of the total fund. We hold that proponents of the settlement did not meet their burden of proving that the disparate allocation of…
2Cases cited52 opinions
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- United Air Lines, Inc. v. EvansSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Murray Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
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3Cited by226 opinions
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