Case ID: f-supp_643/html/0321-01.html
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Author: {"author": "SCOTT 0. WRIGHT, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jane CATLETT, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Patricia Leembruggen, Grace Tuter, and Adeline Kallemyn, Plaintiffs, v. MISSOURI HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, Robert N. Hunter, Chief Engineer of Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission; V.B. Unsell, District Engineer for District 8 of Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission, Defendants.
    No. 78-4061-CV-C-5.
    United States District Court, W.D. Missouri, C.D.
    Aug. 26, 1986.
    
      See also, 627 F.Supp. 1015.
    Lisa S. Van Amburg, St. Louis, Mo., Karen Plax, Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiffs.
    John H. Gladden, Mo. Highway & Transp. Com’n, Joplin, Mo., Paula Lambrecht, Asst. Counsel, Mo. State Highway & Transp. Com’n, Jefferson City, Mo., for defendants.
   ORDER

SCOTT 0. WRIGHT, Chief Judge.

Pending before the Court are two issues left to be resolved in this case. First is the issue of damages under the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 count against the Highway Commission. At the trial in September, 1983, the jury returned verdicts in favor of the class and against the Highway Commission. The question is whether the doctrine of sovereign immunity precludes such damages under § 1983. The plaintiffs have presented no persuasive authority to challenge the defendants’ position that they are immune from monetary damages. However, this immunity does not extend to equitable or injunctive relief. Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308, 314 n. 6, 95 S.Ct. 992, 997 n. 6, 43 L.Ed.2d 214 (1975); Hoohuyli v. Ariyoshi, 741 F.2d 1169, 1176 (9th Cir.1984). Since the Court has already ordered injunctive relief under Title VII in this case, any relief under § 1983 would mirror what has been set out in the Court’s order of December 13, 1985.

Secondly, plaintiffs have submitted their calculations of back pay based on the Ha-meed formula followed by this Court in its December 13, 1985 order. See Hameed v. Ironworkers, 637 F.2d 506 (8th Cir.1980). The defendants reviewed this submission and chose not to make any response. Accordingly, it is hereby

ORDERED that the individually named plaintiffs are awarded the following amount of back pay:

Jane Catlett $ 78,189.77

Patricia Leembruggen 123,923.18

Adeline Kallemyn 105,245.82

Grace Tuter Shelley 108,930.95

It is further

ORDERED that the following class members are awarded back pay in the following amounts:

1. For the sub-class of 1975, each shall receive $41,747.31:

Martha Patton

Evelyn Young

2. For the sub-class of 1976, each shall receive $73,356.39:

Glenda Bond

Rosalee Habermehl

Rebecca McCrown

Theresa Marshall

Patricia Martone

3. For the sub-class of 1977, each shall receive $22,314.50:

Lucy Anderson

Joyce Bass

Cynthia Benner

Rebecca Cook

Georgia Eddington

Lori Etherton

Diane Gaehle

Melinda Gottas

Ethel Hirsch

Gerry Johnson

Margaret Johnson-Wood

Sonna Jones

Edith Kelly

Virginia Means

Sheree Moran

Jackie Nelson

Shirley Nelson Butts

Goldie Potter

Delores Powers

Brenda Smith

Betty Spitler

Brenda Storie

Audrey Sturdefant

Rebecca Swindall

Vickie Wand

Cheryl Young

4. For the sub-class of 1978, each shall receive $5,882.57:

Andrea Anderson

Beatrice Ash-Thomas

Norma Auslam

Nancy Baker

Connie Baldwin

Sally Lou Bates

Sarah Baumgartner

Sherry Biggs

Betty Jo Booher

Jean Bray

Nancy Cameron

Sandra Churchill

Sharon Claspill

Louise Cromwell

Marla Cypret

Janet Daniels

Verla Daugherty

Lucinda Dennis

Katherine Duncan

Karen Faulkner

Sharon Grant

Sally Graves

Karen Hall

Cheri Haney

Leona Hankins

Cleta Harris

Judy Hayes

Veta Hood

Shirley Hosier

Darra Justice

Myma Kimberling

Lois Ludwig

Jean McClellan

Jane Mast

Delores Merrill

Rose Middaugh

Sandy Miller

Nancy Murray

Jo Myers

Loretta Nelson

Joetta Newman

Shirley Jones

Janice Perry

Sharon Pierson

Patricia Pigorsch

Janet Plemmons

Linda Radford

Lynn Roth

Janet Rowden

Vicki Rufer

Phyllis Schofield

Michelle Sheldon

Delilah Shobe

Marideth Sisco

Mary Ellen Smith

Sandra Startzman

Frances Stiebel

Anna Stokes

Sherry Stone

Connie Stroud

Linda Van Stavem

Bonnie Warner

Beverly Welch

Linda Jo Willis

Debbie Wolfe

5. For the sub-class of 1979, each shall receive $9,041.90:

Jo-Ann Bartley

Cindy Bass

Henrietta Bellamy

Jan Lynn Berg

Elizabeth Boehm

Terry Bonds

Christi Carney

Karen Cordova

Deborah Cox

Tammy Cross

Janice Crumpley

Betty Davison

Sharon Doran

Judy Dumback

Joyce Earls

Mary Eldringhoff

Cindy Emery

Candance Gentry

Becky Jo Goad

Billie Guerra

Jerri Hill

Clara January

Pamela Joliff

Karen McKenzie

Virginia McMillin

Cheryl Main

Ricki Martinetti

Gala Minor-Carrier

Donna Muffitt

Sheila Potter

Pixie Rippy

Roxie Rosenbaum

Tamra Russell

Sharon Stafford

Cynthia Taylor

Carla Trowbridge

Connie Tyler

Kathy Van Zandt

Janet Whitlock

6. For the sub-class of 1980, each shall receive $2,838.76:

Lynn Bennett

Sharon L. Clark

Dee Davis

Brenda Smith-Dixon

Debra Everitt

Kimberly Meier

Lauren Minkler

Kelly Ormsby

Glenda Peak

Deborah Pippin

Janet Tower

Jody Williams

Linda Jo Willis

Susan Yowell

It is further

ORDERED that this award of back pay shall be stayed pending appeal to the Eighth Circuit. However, the injunctive relief as set out in the December 13, 1985 order is not stayed and should be immediately implemented, if defendants have not already done so. It is further

ORDERED that monetary damages under § 1983 are denied, but injunctive relief is granted, to mirror that already ordered by this Court.