Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Ass'n v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1986-07-02

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Justice Rehnquist, with whom The Chief Justice joins, dissenting. Today, in Firefighters v. Cleveland, post, p. 501 (Rehnquist, J., dissenting), I express my belief that § 706(g) forbids a court to order racial preferences that effectively displace nonminorities except to minority individuals who have been the actual victims of a particular employer’s racial discrimination. Although the pervasi…

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