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VAN AKEN v. YOUNG

Civ. A. No. 77-72443.

541 F.Supp. 448 (1982)

Neal VAN AKEN, Ronald G. Baranowski, Eric Barterian, Thomas Boland, Gary Britt, Scott Brooks, David Brumm, Dennis Campbell, Alan Cauchi, Michael R. Chartier, James Cichocki, Steve Cleland, Kenneth P. Gerometta, Dennis Girardin, Paul H. Grimm, Jack Hansen, David B. Jones, Michael Kovalcheck, Jeffrey D. Kramer, Michael Leskie, John Lis, Keith Loomis, David W. Lowe, James J. MacDonald, Thomas W. Melchior, Stephen R. Mirch, George Orzech, Dennis M. Palm, Patrick H. Payne, Charles Pinkston, Andrew Rushford, Jr., Mark Stelzer, George L. Talbot, Jr., James E. Todd, Carl Towne, Edward J. Tujaka, Jr., David M. Victor, and Alan Syrzykowski, Plaintiffs, v. Coleman A. YOUNG, individually and in his capacity as Mayor of the City of Detroit; Denise Lewis, individually and in her official capacity as Personnel Director of the City of Detroit; Jacob Sobieraj, Shirley Robinson Hall, Morris Hood, Sr., David Kerwin, and James Lewis, individually and in their official capacity as members of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Detroit; and City of Detroit, a municipal corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

June 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Ziolkowski, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Sylvester Delaney, Deputy Corp. Counsel, William Dietrich, Frank W. Jackson, James C. Zeman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Detroit, Mich., for defendants.

OPINION

GILMORE, District Judge.

For more than a century, the City of Detroit's Fire Department was, for all practical purposes, the private preserve of white males. No black even served in the Department until 1938, and until the 1970's black representation was minimal. Blacks at the upper level of the Department were nonexistent, as were female fire fighters.

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit, 38 white male applicants for positions as fire fighters...

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