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KIRKWOOD v. ELLINGTON

Civ. No. 68-271.

298 F.Supp. 461 (1969)

Dorothy Ann KIRKWOOD, Plaintiff, v. Buford ELLINGTON, Governor of the State of Tennessee, et al., Defendants. Quinlock Davis, Duzzie Jones, Mary Smith, Bessie Walton, Linda Smith, Rhonda Alexander, Barbara Montgomery, Carolyn Baker, Carolyn Davis, Plaintiff-Intervenors.

United States District Court W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

March 18, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Krelstein, Phillip Kuhn, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Eugene C. Gaerig, Frierson M. Graves, Jr., William W. Farris, Asst. County Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for defendants.

W. Otis Higgs, Ratner, Sugarmon, Lucas & Willis, Memphis, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiff-intervenors.

W. J. M. Cody, Memphis, Tenn., amicus curiae.

Before PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, BROWN, Chief District Judge, and McRAE, District Judge.

OPINION

ROBERT M. McRAE, Jr., District Judge.

The plaintiff, Dorothy Ann Kirkwood, filed this action in her own behalf and as a class action under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A Motion to Intervene was filed by nine additional women, who allege that they are individual members of the class of persons in whose behalf the action was filed by the original plaintiff. The Motion to Intervene was...

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