Legal Opinion
Calloway v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
District Court, M.D. Georgia
Decided August 4, 1986No. Civ. A. 77-34-ATHPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OWENS, Chief Judge:
I. History of the Case
On May 28, 1969, twenty black employees of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s Athens, Georgia, plant signed a petition alleging that Westinghouse discriminated against them because of their race. Plaintiffs Major D. Calloway and James Moses were among those signing the petition. The petition was mailed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which treated the petition as an EEOC charge. The claimants wrote that: “We have been denied the right to advance from our present positions to other higher ones for which we are well qualified…
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