JORDAN, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

The Order Amending Opinion filed January 19, 1984, is withdrawn.

The opinion filed August 18, 1983, is amended as follows:

After the fourth paragraph of the opinion, the following paragraph shall be inserted:

Falcon does not prohibit "across the board" class formation in every instance. See [ General Telephone Co. v.] Falcon [ 457 U.S. 147], 102 S.Ct. [2364] at 2371 n. 15 [ 72 L.Ed.2d 740] (Across the board actions aimed at a specific hiring practice are permissible under Rule 23). However, even though it would be permissible to form a class of all black applicants challenging a specified hiring practice, we must conclude after recomputation of the actual number of rejected black applicants, that such a class in the present case would still fail under the numerosity requirement of Rule 23.