Legal Opinion
National Organization for Women, New York Chapter v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 30, 1978No. 78 Civ. 4075PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WHITMAN KNAPP, District Judge.
In this Civil Rights Act suit brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, plaintiffs, the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women (“NOW”) and various individual women, charge defendants, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (“the Commission”) and its executive director Leonard Newman, with discriminating against women and members of minority groups in registering applicants for work as cargo checkers. Now before us are an application by plaintiffs for a preliminary injunction and a motion by defendants for summary…
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