RESENDIS v. LEE WAY MOTOR FREIGHT, INC.

No. 73-2322.

505 F.2d 69 (1974)

Patrick RESENDIS, Tony Escobedo, Wilburn White, Arturo Rodriguez and Elias Gonzales, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEE WAY MOTOR FREIGHT, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 25, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruben Montemayor, Harry A. Nass, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Theo F. Weiss, San Antonio, Tex., Paul Scott Kelly, Jr., Raymond F. Beagle, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., for Lee Way.

Edward W. Penshorn, Bradford F. Miller, San Antonio, Tex., for Local 657.

G. William Baab, Hal K. Gillespie, L. N. D. Wells, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for Southern Conference.

Before WISDOM, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Like its companion Title VII cases, Rodriguez v. East Texas Motor Freight, 5 Cir. 1974, 505 F.2d 40, and Herrera v. Yellow Freight System, Inc., 5 Cir. 1974, 505 F.2d 66, this appeal involves claims of discrimination in the exclusion of minority persons from the sought-after road driving jobs in the trucking industry. Plaintiffs Resendis, Escobedo, and Gonzales are Mexican-American...

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