SWORDS
v.
UNITED STATES

U.S. | 1973-04-16
No. 72-1101
411 U.S. 939 Supreme Court of the United States (1973) Positive Treatment
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  • Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters v. United States, 431 U.S. 324 (U.S. 1977)
    …, 528 F. 2d 357 (CA4 1975), cert. denied, 425 U. S. 935 (1976); Hairston v. McLean Trucking Co., 520 F. 2d 226 (CA4 1975); United States v. Chesapeake & Ohio R. Co., 471 F. 2d 582 (CA4 1972), cert. denied sub nom. Railroad Trainmen v. United States, 411 U. S. 939 (1973); Robinson v. Lorillard Corp., 444 F. 2d 791 (CA4), cert. dismissed, 404 U. S. 1006 (1971); Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 420 F. 2d 1225 (CA4 1970), rev’d on other grounds, 401 U. S. 424 (1971); Swint v. Pullman-Standard, 539 F. 2d 77 (CA5 1976);…
  • …, its recourse is to file a suit under § 707. . . .” 556 F. 2d, at 792, n. 8. See, e. g., United States v. Chesapeake & O. R. Co., 471 F. 2d 582, 589-590 (CA4 1972) (constructive seniority), cert. denied sub nom. Railroad Trainmen v. United States, 411 U. S. 939 (1973); United States v. St. Louis-S. F. R. Co., 464 F. 2d 301, 309-311 (CA8 1972) (en banc) (preferential hiring and constructive seniority), cert. denied sub nom. Transportation Union v. United States, 409 U. S. 1107 (1973); United [*328] States v…
  • …ation of Local 659. Where a seniority system perpetuates the effects of past discrimination, such a system is not “bona fide” within the meaning of Title VII. United States v. Chesapeake and Ohio Ry., 471 F. 2d 582, 587 (4 Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 411 U.S. 939, 93 S.Ct. 1893, 36 L.Ed.2d 401 (1973); United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 446 F. 2d 652, 659 (2 Cir. 1971). We have already determined in Part III of this opinion that the present seniority system represented by the Roster perpetuates past disc…

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