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Argued March 29, 1982.
Decided June 21, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bernard F. McGovern, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Connecticut, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Carl R. Ajello, Attorney General, Peter W. Gillies, Deputy Attorney General, and Robert E. Walsh, Sidney D. Giber, and Thomas P. Clifford III, Assistant Attorneys General.
Thomas W. Bucci argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Sidney L. Dworkin.*
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by J. Albert Woll, Robert M. Weinberg, Michael H. Gottesman, and Laurence Gold for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; and by Richard C. Dinkelspiel, William L. Robinson, Norman J. Chachkin, and Beatrice Rosenberg for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Supreme Court of United States.
JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
We consider here whether an employer sued for violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19641 may assert a "bottom-line" theory of defense. Under that theory, as asserted in this case, an employer's acts of racial discrimination in promotions — effected by an examination having disparate impact — would not render the employer liable for the racial discrimination...
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