Legal Opinion
Patterson v. Newspaper & Mail Deliverers' Union of New York & Vicinity
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 1, 1995No. 73 Civ. 3058 (WCC), 73 Civ. 4278 (WCC), Claim No. 230PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM C. CONNER, Senior District Judge.
A class of private plaintiffs and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) brought two civil rights actions in 1973 against the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union of New York and Vicinity (“NMDU” or “Union”) and more than fifty news publishers and distributors within the Union’s jurisdiction. Both suits charged that the Union, with the acquiescence of the publishers and distributors, had historically discriminated against minorities, and that the structure of the collective bargaining agreement, combined with nepotism and cronyism, had…
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