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American Tobacco Co. V. Patterson, Lewis F. Powell Jr

Supreme Court Case Files

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The Proper Role Of Res Judicata And Collateral Estoppel In Title Vii Suits, Charles C. Jackson, John H. Matheson, Thomas J. Pikorski

Michigan Law Review

The Article proceeds from the premise, established in Part I, that federal courts must apply preclusion principles unless Congress clearly indicates otherwise. Part II considers a number of indicators of Congress's intent, and finds no evidence to rebut the presumption that federal courts must give preclusive weight to certain state decisions. Part III then proposes general guidelines for the application of preclusion doctrines in title VII litigation.

Affirmative Action And Reverse Discrimination: Where Do We Stand Now, Kenneth Galchus

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Sex-Based Wage Discrimination Under Title Vii: Equal Pay For Equal Work Or Equal Pay For Comparable Work?, Faith D. Ruderfer

William & Mary Law Review

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Calculation Of Attorneys' Fees Awards In Title Vii Actions Against Private Defendants, Drucilla S. Ramey

Publications

In this article it will be argued that the legislative history of the attorneys' fees provision of Title VII requires that fee awards be computed by a method which produces fees sufficient to sustain a Title VII bar, and that this may best be accomplished by a modified version of the approach customarily used in the antitrust area.

First addressed will be a brief overview of Title VII litigation problems, with emphasis on the complexity, duration, and high-risk nature of the work involved. Then follows a discussion of the legislative purpose of Title VII and its fee provisions, with particular …

Civil Rights Act Of 1964 - Title Vii - Sex Discrimination - Pregnancy - Defenses, Margaret L. Cohen

Duquesne Law Review

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that an airline's employment policy mandating immediate unpaid maternity leave for all flight attendants upon discovery of pregnancy is sex discrimination but is justified by safety considerations.

Harriss v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 649 F.2d 670 (9th Cir. 1980).

Title Vi And The Constitution: A Regulatory Model For Defining ‘Discrimination’, Charles F. Abernathy

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In recent years confusion has surrounded the proper interpretation of title V1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in programs receiving federal financial assistance. Some courts have held that the title prohibits only intentional discrimination. Others have held that it proscribes actions having discriminatory effects as well, an interpretation that imposes a great burden on federal grantees. The Supreme Court heightened the confusion when five individual justices in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke questioned the propriety of the Court's earlier adoption of an "effects" test for title VI. Professor Abernathy argues that this …