Word: dortch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner agreed with Cramer. "You've been flattened by the civil rights steamroller," he said. After an unusual appeal hearing involving all the judges on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the court said that it would delay its ruling pending the Bakke decision...