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" 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... "
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Page 88
by United States. Supreme Court - 1984
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 431

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976 - 1102 pages
...36, 44; Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 US, at 429-431. To achieve this purpose. Congress "proscribe[d] not only overt discrimination but also practices that...are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation." Id., at 431. Thus, the Court has repeatedly held that a prima facie Title VII violation may be established...
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Civil Rights Digest, Volume 7

1974 - 226 pages
...Duke Power Co. upheld the use of the effect test. In that opinion, Chief Justice Burger wrote: . . . [T]he Act proscribes not only overt discrimination...related to job performance, the practice is prohibited. [P] radices, procedures, or tests neutral on their face, and even neutral in terms of intent, cannot...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 1232 pages
...operate invidiously to discriminate on the basis of racial or other impermissible classification . . . The act proscribes not only overt discrimination but...related to job performance, the practice is prohibited. . . . Congress has placed on the employer the burden of showing that any given requirement must have...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 2102 pages
...Congress has now required that the posture and condition of the job seeker be taken into account .... The Act proscribes not only overt discrimination but...business necessity. If an employment practice which excludes Negroes cannot be shown to be related to job performance, the practice is prohibited. The...
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Hearings on Utilization of Minority and Women Workers in the Public ...

United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - 1972 - 578 pages
...that they really measured job capability. "The touchstone is business necessity," the opinion said. "If an employment practice which operates to exclude...related to job performance, the practice is prohibited." The Court ruled that the Duke Power Company had failed to demonstrate the business need for the test...
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Selected Court Decisions Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity ... March ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity - 1972 - 678 pages
...and this Court expressly recognized these differences in Gaston County v. United States, supra. . . . The act proscribes not only overt discrimination but...are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation .... [G]ood intent or absence of discriminatory intent does not redeem employment procedures or testing...
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Equal Educational Opportunity: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Equal ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity - 1971 - 1584 pages
...Griggs v. Duke Power Company. 39 US LW 4317, 4319 (March 8, 1971). The Act proscribes not only "over discrimination but also practices that are fair in...operation. The touchstone is business necessity." Id. 17. In Origgs the Supreme Court expressly rejected "subjective intent" as an element of racial...
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Records Maintained by Government Agencies: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ...

United States. Congress. House. Government Operations Committee - 1972 - 238 pages
...Potcer Co.. 401 US 424, 429 (1971), the Court speaking through Chief Justice Burger held that title VII "proscribes not only overt discrimination but also...are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. * * * If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to...
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Security and Privacy of Criminal Arrest Records: Hearings, Ninety-second ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 - 1972 - 554 pages
...Power Co., 401 US 424, 429 (1971), the Court speaking through Chief Justice Burger held that Title VII "proscribes not only overt discrimination but also...are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. ... If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to job...
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Records Maintained by Government Agencies: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee - 1973 - 244 pages
...Prticer Co., 401 US 424, 429 (1971), the Court speaking through Chief Justice Burger held that title VII "proscribes not only overt discrimination but also...are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. * * * If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to...
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