Legal Opinion
Cox v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 1986No. Nos. 84-7382, 84-7462PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
This is a “pattern and practice” sex discrimination suit brought by a class of women employed at the American Cast Iron Pipe Company (ACIPCO) in Birmingham, Alabama, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000e et seq. During the decade in which these proceedings were heard by the district court under a succession of judges, the ■original class was decertified and judgment was ultimately entered in favor of only three of the individual claimants.
We conclude from our examination of these proceedings that the class decertification was improper and…
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