Cotton v. U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is taken from the district court’s final judgment resolving all claims under Title VII, 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000e et seq., arising from alleged racially discriminatory employment practices committed by U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company (“the company”) between July 2, 1965 and January 14, 1975. Black workers at the company during this period had been certified as a class and had entered into a consent decree that, inter alia, established a procedure for filing grievances for back pay lost because of alleged discrimination. On August 8, 1985, the district court entered…