Rogers v. United States Steel Corporation - Steel Workers Granted Communication with LDF Attorneys

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January 27, 1975

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Rogers v. United States Steel Corporation - Steel Workers Granted Communication with LDF Attorneys, 1975. a284e707-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3f0b0e7a-2671-416f-88d5-4e98560b3ecf/rogers-v-united-states-steel-corporation-steel-workers-granted-communication-with-ldf-attorneys. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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January 27, 1975 

Enclosed is a copy of the opinion issued in Philadelphia 

late Friday afternoon (January 24, 1975) by the U.S. Court of Appeals 

, f ee d/ for the Third Circuit in Rogers v. United States Steel Corporation. The 
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Opinion. written by Judge John J. Gibbons issued a writ of mandamus pro- 

hibiting the U.S. District Judge Hubert Teitelbaum, from enforcing a 

local court rule which had been applied to prevent lawyers for the 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from communicating with black) 

steel workers at U.S. Steel's Homestead Works. Judge Teitelbaum had 

forbidden the Legal Defense Fund lawyers from attending a meeting of 

the Homestead Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of 

Colored People to talk with workers about the legal issues resulting 

from the Legal Defense Fund's Title VII employment discrimination case 

against U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh, and about the related national con- ™ 

sent decree worked out between the major steel companies and the federal / 

government last April. The Legal Defense Fund is challenging the con- 

sent decree as illegal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth 

Circuit in New Orleans and a decision in that case is expected this 

winter. 

Friday's decision by the Third Circuit said that in view of 

the difficult First Amendment issues presented by the local rule, it 

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found that the federal district court was without authority to promulgate 

the rule against such communications. The Court of Appeals rejected the 

Legal Defense Fund's appeals protesting Judge Teitelbaum's orders delaying 

hearing of the Rodgers case. 

The Rodgers case was argued on appeal for the Legal Defense 

Fund by William T. Coleman Jr., retiring President of the LDF who was 

recently nominated to be Secretary of Transportation. The Fund's Pitts- 

burgh cooperating attorney in the case is Bernard D. Marcus. The case 

was argued for U.S. Steel by Leonard L. Scheinholtz of Pittsburgh, and for 

the United Steelworkers of America, by Carl B. Frankel, Assistant General 

Counsel. 

Minority workers will now have a chance to talk with Legal 

Defense Fund lawyers before they decide whether or not they wish to sign 

waivers of all prospective and accrued rights in re¢urn for cash settle- 

ments purporting to compensate for discriminatory employment practices. 

For further information, contact James M. Nabrit or Barry 

Goldstein at the above address. 

Jian iy 
Norman Bloomfield

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