Linda Purrington wrote:
>
> Can you give us some case citations for the courts ruling differently in
> gender discrimination cases? Is there any reason to believe they are
> headed more toward Brown? LP
> Linda Purrington <lpurring@earthlink.net>
>
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> PEGGY WEEKS wrote:
> >
> > We have to be very careful in citing the Brown v. Board decision. This
> > decision was fundamentally a disparate-impact decision. The courts
> > have historically ruled differently when a disparate impact case involving
> > sex discrimination has come before it. The court has been more willing
> > to "buy" the disparate impact theory in race discrimination cases than in
> > sex discrimination cases...
> >
> > PEGGY WEEKS <peggy_w@nde4.nde.state.ne.us>