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HR 658 104th Congress House Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Discrimination in employment Equality before the law Labor and Employment Law Minorities Racial discrimination Supreme Court decisions

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Introduced: January 24, 1995 See on congress.gov
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Mar 15, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Feb 1, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Jan 24, 1995
Referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 24, 1995
Introduced in House
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 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.

What's happening now March 15, 1995

Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Pelosi, Nancy
California · Jan 24, 1995
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 658: Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-658/
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