Bernard v. Gulf Oil Company

Full title: WESLEY P. BERNARD ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. GULF OIL COMPANY ET…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Date published: Sep 27, 1979

604 F.2d 449 (5th Cir. 1979)

Opinion

No. 77-1502.

September 27, 1979.

Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, La., Barry L. Goldstein, Washington, D.C., Jack Greenberg, Patrick O. Patterson, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

William H. Ng, Joseph T. Eddins, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae, for E.E.O.C.

Joseph H. Sperry, Wm. G. Duck, Kathleen M. Civins, Susan R. Sewell, U.S. Jones, Houston, Tex., for Gulf Oil.

Carl A. Parker, Port Arthur, Tex., for Oil, Chemical Atomic Workers, Etc.

Michael D. Murphy, Port Arthur, Tex., for appellees.

Appeal from United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas; Joe J. Fisher, District Judge.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, COLEMAN, GODBOLD, CLARK, RONEY, GEE, TJOFLAT, HILL, FAY, RUBIN, VANCE, KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, GARZA, HENDERSON, REAVLEY, POLITZ, HATCHETT, ANDERSON and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.^_

_ Judges Goldberg and Ainsworth have recused themselves and did not participate in this decision.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC. [2] (Opinion June 15, 1979, 5 Cir., 1979, 596 F.2d 1249).

BY THE COURT:

A member of the Court in active service having requested a poll on the application for rehearing en banc and a majority of the judges in active service having voted in favor of granting a rehearing en banc,

IT IS ORDERED that the cause shall be reheard by the Court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs.