Legal Opinion
Paradise v. Shoemaker
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided April 13, 1979No. Civ. A. 3561-NPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
JOHNSON, Chief Judge.
In 1972, this Court found that the Alabama Department of Public Safety had “engaged in a blatant and continuous pattern and practice of discrimination in hiring . both as to troopers and supporting personnel.” NAACP v. Allen, 340 F.Supp. 703, 705 (M.D.Ala.1972). The Court ordered that defendants hire one black trooper for each white trooper hired “until approximately twenty-five (25) percent of the Alabama state trooper force is comprised of Negroes.” Id., at 706. This order was affirmed on appeal and, in 1975, restated emphatically in granting plaintiffs’…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Carter v. GallagherCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
- Morrow v. DillardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- NAACP v. AllenDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1972
- NAACP v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. ParadiseSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Paradise v. PrescottCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Paradise v. PrescottDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1983
- Billy Ray JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Etc., Et Al., Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- 38 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1094, 37 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 35,484 Phillip Paradise, Jr., United States of America, Plaintiff-Amicus Curiae-Appellee, Cross-Appellant v. Byron Prescott, as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Cross-Appellee, V.E. McClellan Defendants-Intervenors, Appellants-Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
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