In Re Southern Railway Employment Practices Litigation

OPINION AND ORDER

This litigation consists of two actions pending in two federal districts — one in the Southern District of Ohio and one in the Eastern District of Kentucky. Named as defendants in both actions are the Southern Railway Company (the Southern); the Southern Railway System; the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (the CNO & TP); 1 and the United Transportation Union (UTU) and certain of its local unions. Additional defendants in the Kentucky action are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the UTU-Engineering, and certain of the local unions of both. The two…