Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing for the Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor questioned the constitutionality of setting aside 30 percent of a city's contracts for minority contractors and decided that minority contractors must prove specific instances of past discrimination before they can constitutionally qualify for affirmative action...
...decision does not squash affirmative action. It merely questions the lengths to which affirmative action can be taken before reverse discrimination results. In the decision, the court attempts to rectify what it sees as an unconstitutional law, not to condemn or reject affirmative action as a remedy for past discrimination...
...past, the education budgets approved by the legislature were slightly reduced forms of a governor's proposal, Bartley said. But this year, the budget will probably...
While Clem said his group has not yet completed an application to the zoning board, the developer is already seeking a permit for the office project. But he said that the group's attempts to consult the community in the past had not been successful...
...idea for the conference stemmed from an era of insensitivity and outright hostility to minority concerns. In the past decade the Justice Department stopped actively seeking civil rights cases to prosecute, and instead dedicated itself to rolling back affirmative action and other minority gains. These attempts culminated in a recent Supreme Court decision which declared unconstitutional a Richmond program requiring 30 percent of the city's contracts to be awarded to minority contractors and thereby jeopardized all government-sponsored affirmative action programs...