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ESLINGER v. THOMAS

Civ. A. No. 71-153.

324 F.Supp. 1329 (1971)

Victoria Lamonte ESLINGER, for herself and for all other women similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Lovick Oliphant THOMAS, as Clerk of the Senate of South Carolina, Earle Elias Morris, Jr., as President ex-officio of the Senate of South Carolina, and as a representative of the Senators of South Carolina, and Edgar Allan Brown, as President Pro Tempore of the Senate of South Carolina, and as Senator of Barnwell County, South Carolina, and all other Senators of the State of South Carolina, jointly and severally, who are similarly situated, and their successors in each office, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

April 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin McDonald, Columbia, S. C., Charles Morgan, Jr., and Norman Siegel, Atlanta, Ga., and Jean Hoefer Toal, of Belser, Belser & Baker, Columbia, S. C., for plaintiffs.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Michael W. Tighe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S. C., and E. N. Zeigler of Zeigler & Townsend, Florence, S. C., for defendants.

ORDER

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

The plaintiff in this action seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendants who are officers and members of the Senate of the State of South Carolina. The substance of the plaintiffs' complaint is that she was denied a position as page in the Senate of South Carolina solely because of her sex. She urges that the denial of employment as a page solely on the basis of sex is in violation of the equal protection...

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