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...called "up or out" rule, after she was twice considered and rejected for a partnership in the firm. Hishon sued, invoking Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment by firms with more than 15 employees. Atlanta Federal District Judge Newell Edenfield threw out Hishon's suit in 1980, saying that "to coerce a mismatched or unwanted partnership too closely resembles . . . the enforcement of shotgun weddings." But no one on the Supreme Court was impressed by King & Spalding's arguments, including its claim that its partnership practices were protected by the constitutional...
...federal court in Atlanta, a company vice president said that he had asked Troutman to use his influence, not to practice law. Moreover, the company argued, a court can not enforce an agreement for services that were technically illegal. In his instructions to the jury, U.S. District Judge Newell Edenfield distinguished between corrupt influence and using "personal connections or influence merely to gain access to a public official." Apparently deciding that Troutman had performed a proper legal service, the jury awarded...
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