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N.A.A.C.P., DETROIT BRANCH v. DPOA

Nos. 84-1836, 85-1026, 85-1027 and 85-1041.

821 F.2d 328 (1987)

N.A.A.C.P., DETROIT BRANCH; The Guardians, Inc.; Brady Bruenton; Cynthia Martin; Hilton Napoleon; Sharron Randolph; Betty T. Roland; Grant Battle; Cynthia Cheatom; Evin Fobbs; John Hawkins; Helen Poellnitz, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees (84-1836, 85-1026, 85-1027), Cross-Appellants (85-1041), v. DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (DPOA); Thomas Schneider, President of the DPOA; City of Detroit, a Michigan Municipal Corporation; Mayor Coleman A. Young; Detroit Police Department; Board of Police Commissioners; Chief William Hart; Governor William Milliken; and the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, Defendants-Appellants (84-1836, 85-1026, 85-1027), Cross-Appellees (85-1041), and Kenneth C. Champagne; Mark Surma; Marsha Dreslinski; Adela Matias-Rivera, et al., Applicants in Intervention-Appellants (85-1027).

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1987.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 31, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter S. Nussbaum (lead counsel), Mara Kalnins-Ghafari, Donald J. Mooney, Jr., argued, Paxton & Seasongood, Cincinnati, Ohio, Jack F. Fuchs, Farmington Hills, Mich., Frank W. Jackson, Detroit, Mich., Teri L. Hayles, Daniel B. Edelman, argued, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Daune Elston, Thomas Atkins, (lead counsel), argued, Brooklyn, N.Y., Jeanne Miner, Gary Benjamin, James W. McGinnis, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Diane L. Vaksdal, argued, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, Colo., for applicants in intervention-appellants.

Before MERRITT, WELLFORD and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 31, 1987.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Two questions are raised in this case arising from the layoff of black employees hired under an affirmative action plan. The first question is whether prior judicial approval of a public employer's affirmative action plan forecloses that employer from later laying off recently hired employees who would otherwise be laid off on the basis of seniority under a collective bargaining...

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