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Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on November 21, 1991. The Civil Rights Act of 1991[3] is a United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination. The Act represented the first effort since the passage of the Civil ...
Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1986, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 99–592; Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 101–433; Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–166; United States Supreme Court cases
After the Supreme Court ruling, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Pub. L. 102-166) amended several sections of Title VII. [1] Title VII prohibits employment discrimination "because of" certain reasons. While "because of" may be understood in the conversational sense, the McDonnell Douglas case was the first landmark case to define this phrase.
November 21, 1991: Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–166, 105 Stat. 1071; December 9, 1991: High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–194
August 9, 1935: Motor Carrier Act, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–255, 49 Stat. 543 (renamed part II of the Interstate Commerce Act) August 14, 1935: Social Security Act, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–271, 49 Stat. 620 (including Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Pension Act)
The text of 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) are as follows: "(b) Attorney’s fees In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1981a, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92–318, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or section 12361 ...
Racial quotas are often established as means of diminishing racial discrimination, addressing under-representation and evident racism against those racial groups or, the opposite, against the disadvantaged majority group (see numerus clausus or bhumiputra systems). Conversely, quotas have also been used historically to promote discrimination ...
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