United States Eleventh Circuit

In an employment discrimination class action suit between two government agencies, the district court erred in interpreting and applying Article Fifteen of the consent decree, which provides that upon completion of a job classification study, the jobs may be collapsed or restructured in order to comply with the decree.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/22/2003
• Published 07/22/2003

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, HILL and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Michael Cooper, Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr., R. Scott Clark, Fitzpatrick, Cooper & Clark, Susan Salonimer Wagner, Lisa Wright Borden, Wesley C. Redmond, Berkowitz, Lefkovits, Isom & Kushner, C. Dennis Hughes, London & Yancey, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Michael E. Lackey, Jr., Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, David R. Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Julian L. McPhillips, Jr., McPhillips, Shinbaum & Gill, Troy King, Montgomery, AL, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Wiggins, Jr., Russell Wayne Adams, Ann K. Wiggins, Kell A. Simon, Robert F. Childs, Jr., Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, P.A., Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.