Legal Opinion
Jones v. GPU, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 1, 2005No. Civ.A. No. 01-4950PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SAVAGE, District Judge.
In this putative class action alleging race-based disparate treatment brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the plaintiffs seek certification of a class of all African-Americans, union and non-union, employed by the defendant in its numerous plants throughout Pennsylvania. They allege that GPU, Inc. and its wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries discriminated against African-American employees in compensation, promotion, job assignments and training, which adversely affected their overall corporate success.
GPU contends that the plaintiffs cannot satisfy the…
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