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Time to fight back: an anti-discrimination campaign waiting to happen?
Imagine opening your newspaper one morning and reading a Supreme Court opinion that puts a startling new twist on an old civil rights tactic. The Court declares that some prominent university has violated equal opportunity laws by "engaging in a pattern of employment discrimination ... against Republicans and Christian conservatives. Of the university's 1,828 professors, there are only eight Republicans and five Christian conservatives. Such statistical evidence of gross political and ideological imbalance has been taken as a telltale sign of purposeful discrimination in many previous civil rights cases. In this case as well it provides prima facie evidence that individual ...
- Congress, high court clash on civil rights. (Supreme Court) (NATIONAL LAW...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 29, 1990 700+ words
...year's major civil rights decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices...on the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1990 and the Supreme Court decides two affirmative...Overturning Supreme Court civil rights rulings has never...
- From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial...
- Magazine article from: Yale Law Journal Bernstein, David E. Somin, Ilya December 1, 2004 700+ words
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality...minorities. (6) From Jim Crow to Civil Rights is the definitive study of the Supreme Court's role in the civil rights struggles of the twentieth century...
- From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial...
- Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review Lassiter, Matthew D. May 1, 2005 700+ words
...JIM CROW TO CIVIL RIGHTS: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE STRUGGLE...scholars of the civil rights movement...significance of the Supreme Court's famous...causation: the Supreme Court decision...South, which civil rights activists...
- Civil rights cases. (Supreme Court decisions in several cases) (Developments in...
- Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review Ruben, George August 1, 1989 700+ words
Civil rights cases The Supreme Court issued several rulings...of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a statistical...was at odds with the Civil Rights Act because it required...v. Mansell, the Supreme Court held that the divorced...
- Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights deplores Supreme Court decision...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 27, 1988 700+ words
...RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS DEPLORES SUPREME COURT DECISION AGAINST...Religious and Civil Rights, deploring the Supreme Court's denial of...obstacle of the Supreme Court discourage them...Religious and Civil Rights is a nationwide...
- Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights applauds Supreme Court decision...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 29, 1988 700+ words
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS APPLAUDS SUPREME COURT DECISION ON ADOLESCENT FAMILY LIFE ACT...The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, welcoming the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Adolescent Family...
- SUPREME COURT RULES RIGHTS NOT RETROACTIVE THOUSANDS OF CASES WERE PENDING WHEN...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 27, 1994 700+ words
...chapter in federal civil rights law, the Supreme Court voted 8 to 1 Tuesday...against applying the Civil Rights Act of 1991 retroactively...after a series of Supreme Court decisions in the...the main federal civil rights laws. Although...
- Civil Rights Coalition Calls Supreme Court Michigan Decision Victory for...
- News wire article from: AScribe Law News Service June 23, 2003 700+ words
...declared the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest and most diverse civil rights coalition. "The Supreme Court has listened to America's civil rights community, America's educators...
