Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company

OPINION OF THE COURT

SCARLETT, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a white female employee of the Defendant, filed this action on May 18, 1967, alleging a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, contending that Defendant refused to consider her bid for a job vacancy in the title of Switchman because of her sex. Defendant’s answer admitted that it refused to consider Plaintiff’s bid for the switchman’s job in Louisville, Georgia, because of her sex and affirmatively averred that sex was a bona fide occupational qualification for the switchman’s job. Thus, the only issue presented by the…