Legal Opinion
Sears v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided June 14, 1978No. Civ. A. W-4963PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
WESLEY E. BROWN, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
This is an action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. [Title VII or the Act]. Plaintiffs and class members 1 charge The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway [Santa Fe] and the United Transportation Union [UTU], successor to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen [BRT] and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen [ORC&B], with having engaged in a policy and practice of discrimination on account of race in their dealings with plaintiffs and other black train porters employed by Santa Fe, in…
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- 25 Fair empl.prac.cas. 337, 25 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 31,621 Joe Vernon Sears, an Individual, in Person and for All Other Persons Similarly Situated, and Cross-Appellants v. Albert L. Bennett, C. J. Skelton, Archie N. Jones, Forest D. Tollett, John W. Landrum, Lawson C. Spencer, Thomas H. White, Earlie Nash, Aubrey A. Robinson, Edward Rawlins, John W. Cole, Charles Majors, Jr., Jesse J. Smith, Paul H. Stewart, Jimmy E. Brown, Carl E. Chester, Ray E. Landrum, Raymond Wiley, Elgie Crow and Ellis Johnson Criscel Kemp, A. M. Bennett, A. L. Woolfolk, T. C. Luckey and W. W. Seymour, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Cross-Appellant v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, and United Transportation Union, Successor to Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, a Labor Organization, and Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1981
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