Legal Opinion
Willie M. Walker, Willie Rhoades and Bobbie P. Lowery v. The Jim Dandy Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 4, 1984No. 83-7334PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
In this Title VII class action suit, we review the district court’s order denying appellants’ motion for class certification and intervention. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.
Facts
On August 28, 1974, Willie M. Walker filed a complaint alleging racial discrimination against him by appellee, The Jim Dandy Company (Jim Dandy). In this complaint, appellants, Willie Rhoades and Bobbie P. Lowery, females, also alleged that Jim Dandy engaged in sexual discriminatory employment practices in its refusal to' hire them. Rhoades and Lowery sought to represent a…
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