Legal Opinion
Coates v. Johnson & Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 4, 1985No. Nos. 82-2328, 82-2329PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of an individual and class action brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. (1976 & Supp. V 1981), and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (1976), charging racial discrimination in the pattern and practice of employee discharges between 1974 and 1981 at defendants-appellees’ Midwest Diaper Plant formerly in Park Forest South, Illinois. Plaintiffs-appellants are Wesley Coates, a black employee who commenced this litigation individually after the defendants fired him in…
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