Legal Opinion
In re Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Employment Practices Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided April 4, 1977No. 262Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This litigation consists of sixteen actions pending in two districts: fifteen in the Southern District of Texas,1 and one in the Western District of Texas. Southern Pacific Transportation Company is a defendant in each action, and various labor unions are added as defendants in four of the Southern District of Texas actions. Plaintiffs allege that defendants have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by engaging in illegal employment practices. The complaints in the actions in the Southern District of Texas basically allege that these discriminatory practices…
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