27 Fair Empl.prac.cas. 1073,28 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 32,407michael E. Spiess, Jack K. Hardy and Benjamin F. Rountree,plaintiffs- Appellees, v. C. Itoh & Company (america), Inc., Defendant-appellant, 664 F.2d 480 (5th Cir. 1981)
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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:
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.
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