LEWIS v. BLOOMSBURG MILLS, INC.

No. 83-1297.

773 F.2d 561 (1985)

Sallie Pearl LEWIS, Bertha Banks, Annie F. Calhoun, Gladys McIntosh, Alice Rountree, Estella Ware, Jossie Jackson, Janie Belle Ashmore, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Appellants, v. BLOOMSBURG MILLS, INC., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Seymour, Washington, D.C. (William L. Robinson, New York City, Stephen L. Spitz, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Theo W. Mitchell, Mitchell, Smith & Pauling, Greenville, S.C., Jack Greenberg, O. Peter Sherwood, New York City, Barry L. Goldstein, Washington, D.C., on brief) for appellants.

Fred W. Suggs, Jr., J. Hamilton Stewart, III, Greenville, S.C. (Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Greenville, S.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment denying on the merits their individual and class claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, alleging sex and race discrimination in hiring, job assignment, and promotion practices of the defendant, Bloomsburg Mills, Inc. (Bloomsburg) in its Abbeville, South...

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