UNITED STATES v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VA.

Nos. 79-1599, 79-1600.

629 F.2d 932 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA; Members of the Board of County Supervisors, John F. Herrity, Warren I. Cikins, Alan H. Magazine, Audrey Moore, Martha Pennino, James S. Scott, John P. Shacochis, Marie B. Travesky, Joseph Alexander; Office of Sheriff and Jail; James D. Swinson, Sheriff, County of Fairfax; Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board; Gene Moore, Chairman of the Fairfax-Falls Church Services Board; Jack M. Watson, Executive Director of Fairfax-Falls Church Services Board; The Fairfax County Park Authority; Estelle R. Holley, Chairman of the Board of Fairfax County Park Authority; Joseph P. Downs, Director of the Fairfax County Park Authority; J. Hamilton Lambert, Acting County Executive of the County of Fairfax, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA; the Office of Sheriff, Fairfax County; the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board; the Fairfax County Park Authority, Appellants, and Members of the Board of County Supervisors, John F. Herrity, Warren I. Cikins, Alan H. Magazine, Audrey Moore, Martha Pennino, James S. Scott, John P. Shacochis, Marie B. Travesky, Joseph Alexander; James D. Swinson, Sheriff, County of Fairfax; Gene Moore, Chairman of the Fairfax-Falls Church Services Board; Jack M. Watson, Executive Director of Fairfax-Falls Church Services Board; Estelle R. Holley, Chairman of the Board of Fairfax County Park Authority; Joseph P. Downs, Director of the Fairfax County Park Authority; J. Hamilton Lambert, Acting County Executive of the County.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Rose, Washington, D.C. (Justin W. Williams, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jessica Dunsay Silver, Dennis J. Dimsey, Joan F. Hartman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellant.

Jack L. Gould, Asst. County Atty., Great Falls, Va. (David T. Stitt, Acting County Atty., Fairfax, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Robert E. Williams, Douglas S. McDowell, Lorence L. Kessler, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, D.C., on brief, as amicus curiae the Equal Employment Advisory Council.

Before WINTER, MURNAGHAN and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

The United States sued Fairfax County, Virginia, and certain governmental officials and agencies within the County1 for alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, 31 U.S.C. § 1242 (Revenue Sharing Act), and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 3766 (Crime Control...

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