27 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1073, 28 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 32,407 Michael E. Spiess, Jack K. Hardy and Benjamin F. Rountree v. C. Itoh & Company (America), Inc.

664 F.2d 480 27 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 1073 , 28 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 32,407 Michael E. SPIESS, Jack K. Hardy and Benjamin F. Rountree, Plaintiffs- Appellees, v. C. ITOH & COMPANY (AMERICA), INC., Defendant-Appellant.

No. 79-2382.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Unit A *

Dec. 9, 1981.

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

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.

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

BY THE COURT:

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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. ----, 70 L.Ed.2d ---, No. 81-24, and Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avigliano, --- U.S. ----, 102 S.Ct. ----, 70 L.Ed.2d ---, No. 80-2070, 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.

* Former Fifth Circuit case, Section 9(1) of Public Law 96-452 -October 14, 1980 ** Because of illness, Judge Ainsworth did not participate in the consideration of this order