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Employment Discrimination: An Overview Of The 1989 Supreme Court Term, Suzanna Sherry

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Many of you have seen or heard in the media much discussion about last term's employment discrimination cases. Indeed, last term there was an extraordinary amount of activity in the Supreme Court on employment discrimination. The Court decided four separate cases under Title VII1 (which prohibits employment discrimination) and two cases under related laws. One of those concerned the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, and the other involved 42 U.S.C. § 1981, which prohibits discrimination in contractual relations on the basis of race. With all this activity, it does seem like a lot of new law. In fact, however, …