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S 1037 103th Congress Senate

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1991 with respect to the application of such Act.

Introduced: May 27, 1993 Introduced by: Murray, Patty Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Discrimination in employmentEquality before the lawRacial discriminationSupreme Court decisions
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Sep 14, 1994
Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
May 27, 1993
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
May 27, 1993
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6738-6739)
May 27, 1993
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action September 14, 1994

Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. (Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1037: Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act. 103rd Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/103-S-1037/
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