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PARADISE v. SHOEMAKER

Civ. A. No. 3561-N.

470 F.Supp. 439 (1979)

Phillip PARADISE, Jr., Individually and on behalf of the class similarly situated, Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff and Amicus Curiae, v. Jerry SHOEMAKER, as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, his agents, assigns and successors in office, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Alabama, N. D.

April 13, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Carroll and Dennis N. Balske, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Barry E. Teague, U. S. Atty., M. D. Ala., Montgomery, Ala., and Gerald S. Hartman, Douglas B. Huron, and Cynthia Drabek, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., Edward L. Hardin, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., and Maury D. Smith and David R. Boyd, Smith, Bowman, Thagard, Crook & Culpepper, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

In 1972, this Court found that the Alabama Department of Public Safety had "engaged in a blatant and continuous pattern and practice of discrimination in hiring . . . both as to troopers and supporting personnel." NAACP v. Allen, 340 F.Supp. 703, 705 (M.D.Ala.1972). The Court ordered that defendants hire one black trooper for each white trooper hired "until approximately twenty...

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