Civil Rights Act of 1990: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on S. 2104 ... February 23, 27, March 1, and 7, 1989, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 1076 páginas |
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... U.S. Supreme Court in protecting civil rights . These decisions have opened significant gaps in the laws that prohibit racism , sexism , and other flagrant and other types of ingrained bias in our society . Fortunately , none of those ...
... U.S. Supreme Court in protecting civil rights . These decisions have opened significant gaps in the laws that prohibit racism , sexism , and other flagrant and other types of ingrained bias in our society . Fortunately , none of those ...
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... U.S. Supreme Court unwisely and unfairly shifted the burden of proof in such litigation from employers to em- ployees . By shifting the burden , the U.S. Supreme Court has made it far more difficult and expensive for victims of ...
... U.S. Supreme Court unwisely and unfairly shifted the burden of proof in such litigation from employers to em- ployees . By shifting the burden , the U.S. Supreme Court has made it far more difficult and expensive for victims of ...
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... U.S. Supreme Court decisions . I hope the administration is serious in its commitment to ending discrimination , and I hope that it will soon join the broad biparti- san coalition in Congress that is committed to enacting the Civil ...
... U.S. Supreme Court decisions . I hope the administration is serious in its commitment to ending discrimination , and I hope that it will soon join the broad biparti- san coalition in Congress that is committed to enacting the Civil ...
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... U.S. Supreme Court cases . In fact , it overhauls two Federal statutes , throws out years of U.S. Supreme Court and appellate Court decisions , and conflicts directly with several core concepts of American justice . Some areas of the ...
... U.S. Supreme Court cases . In fact , it overhauls two Federal statutes , throws out years of U.S. Supreme Court and appellate Court decisions , and conflicts directly with several core concepts of American justice . Some areas of the ...
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... U.S. Supreme Court precedent in each particular , including Griggs , not a departure from precedent . They implement the disparate impact standard in a sensible way , they do not overturn it . The CHAIRMAN . Senator Metzenbaum . OPENING ...
... U.S. Supreme Court precedent in each particular , including Griggs , not a departure from precedent . They implement the disparate impact standard in a sensible way , they do not overturn it . The CHAIRMAN . Senator Metzenbaum . OPENING ...
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Página 317 - ... bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise...
Página 27 - ... well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation...
Página 278 - The Act proscribes not only overt discrimination but also practices that are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. The touchstone is business necessity. If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to job performance, the practice is prohibited.
Página 340 - Congress directed the thrust of the Act to the consequences of employment practices, not simply the motivation. More than that, Congress has placed on the employer the burden of showing that any given requirement must have a manifest relationship to the employment in question.
Página 30 - Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing in response to your letter of March 25, 1987.
Página 99 - Sadly, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Página 210 - In all civil actions and proceedings not otherwise provided for by Act of Congress or by these rules, a presumption imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of going forward with evidence to rebut or meet the presumption, but does not shift to such party the burden of proof in the sense of the risk of nonpersuasion, which remains throughout the trial upon the party on whom it was originally cast.
Página 66 - If an employer does then meet the burden of proving that its tests are "job related," it remains open to the complaining party to show that other tests or selection devices, without a similarly undesirable racial effect, would also serve the employer's legitimate interest in "efficient and trustworthy workmanship.
Página 20 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Página 287 - ... whether a challenged practice serves, in a significant way, the legitimate employment goals of the employer. The touchstone of this inquiry is a reasoned review of the employer's justification for his use of the challenged practice. A mere insubstantial justification in this regard will not suffice, because such a low standard of review would permit discrimination to be practiced through the use of spurious, seemingly neutral employment practices.