SPIESS v. ITOH COMPANY (AMERICA), INC

Full title: MICHAEL E. SPIESS, JACK K. HARDY AND BENJAMIN F. ROUNTREE…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.[fn*] Unit A

Date published: Jan 5, 1982

664 F.2d 480 (5th Cir. 1982)

Opinion

No. 79-2382.

December 9, 1981. Certiorari Dismissed January 5, 1982.

Fulbright Jaworski, Joe P. Martin, Neil Martin, Nancy Morrison O'Connor, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Porter Clements, Edward John O'Neill, Jr., Charles E. Humphrey, Jr., Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lutz Alexander Prager, E.E.O.C., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, 469 F. Supp. 1; Carl O. Bue, Jr., Judge.

Before BROWN, AINSWORTH^__, CHARLES CLARK, GEE, RUBIN, GARZA, REAVLEY, POLITZ, RANDALL, TATE, SAM D. JOHNSON, WILLIAMS and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

__ Because of illness, Judge Ainsworth did not participate in the consideration of this order.

BY THE COURT:

In light of the grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court of the United States in Avigliano v. Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc., ___ U.S. ___, 102 S.Ct. 501, 70 L.Ed.2d 377, and Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avigliano, ___ U.S. ___, 102 S.Ct. 1420, 71 L.Ed.2d 644, it is ordered that the order of this court requiring the above styled cause to be reheard en banc, 654 F.2d 302, is vacated and the opinion of the panel dated the 24th day of April, 1981, 643 F.2d 353, is reinstated.