Legal Opinion
15 Fair empl.prac.cas. 827, 15 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7842 Patrick James v. Stockham Valves and Fittings Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 18, 1977No. 75-2176PublishedCited by 299 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents issues of segregated facilities and programs that were long ago resolved in the courts of this country. The case also raises issues related to job assignment, transfer, promotion, training, recruitment, seniority, and testing; some of the answers to these questions seem clear, but others are still being formulated by legal processes. All of the issues, the settled and the unsettled, are intertwined.
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STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On October 5, 1966, the named plaintiffs, Patrick James, Howard Harville and Louis Winston, black employees at Stockham’s Birmingham…
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