Mengelkoch v. Industrial Welfare Commission

OPINION AND ORDER ON MOTION TO DISSOLVE THREE-JUDGE COURT

Before JERTBERG, Circuit Judge, and STEPHENS and GRAY, District Judges. STEPHENS, District Judge.

This is an action brought for declaratory and other appropriate relief pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Plaintiffs, three female employees of defendant North American Aviation, Inc., are suing to have Section 1350 of the California Labor Code (a maximum hours for women law), declared unconstitutional as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or invalid as conflicting with…