United States Eleventh Circuit

Past practice of excluding women from firefighting positions justified affirmative action plan that set long-term goal of hiring 36% female firefighters.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2001
• Published 06/12/2001

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HAND, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jane Marie Letwin, Wilton Manors, FL, John J. Chamblee, Jr., Chamblee & Johnson, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lee Alan Kraftchick, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.