JOHNSON v. RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC.

No. 73-1306.

489 F.2d 525 (1973)

Willie JOHNSON, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 27, 1973.

Rehearing Denied January 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Robinson, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant; William E. Caldwell and Ural B. Adams, Jr., Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, New York City, on brief.

George E. Morrow and Saul C. Belz, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellees; Saul C. Belz, Burch, Porter & Johnson, Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston, Memphis, Tenn., and James L. Highsaw, Highsaw & Mahoney, Washington, D. C., on brief.

Before WEICK, Circuit Judge, O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and ALLEN, District Judge.


WEICK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the District Court dismissing plaintiff's complaint which alleged employment discrimination.

Plaintiff-appellant, Willie Johnson, filed timely charges with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1967 in which he alleged that his employer, Railway Express Agency, Inc. (REA), discriminated against him with regard to seniority rules and job assignments. Johnson further asserted that he had been...

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