Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to the Bakke case, minorities and females will have their pride restored. Whenever we are chosen for a job promotion or college admission we will have the confidence of knowing it is for our ability and not to fill a quota...
...California suit may be moot; since all federal contracts for the 65 Los Angeles-area public works projects have already been awarded, there may no longer be a legal controversy for the courts to resolve. But a number of other contractors have mounted similar challenges to the 10% quota, and it is likely that the high court will be confronted with this issue again...
...Chicago, Federal Judge Prentice Marshall had been scheduled to order a new promotion examination for city police patrolmen seeking to become sergeants. Marshall had previously ruled that the city's 1973 exam discriminated against blacks and other minorities, and he had ordered a minority hiring quota for new sergeants. But after the Bakke ruling, Attorney Norman Barry, represent-big 111 patrolmen who had passed the 1973 exam but lost out on promotion through imposition of the quota, argued that his clients deserved promotion before any new exam was ordered. Said he: "My people are victims of Judge Marshall...
...faster pace. "The Supreme Court has not stopped something," says former U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork, who now teaches law at Yale. "It has started something." Probably more white males will be tempted to file suit against affirmative-action programs on the grounds that they are really hidden quota systems...
...goals to remedy discrimination involved the all-white Philadelphia construction trades. In 1969 the U.S. Labor Department established the "Philadelphia Plan," which provided for goals and timetables in minority recruitment in the Philadelphia building trades. The Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania sued, charging that the plan was an unconstitutional quota system and that it violated the Title VII ban on discriminatory hiring. Not so, ruled the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971, upholding the President's power to attack discrimination through use of preferential remedies. "Clearly the Philadelphia Plan is color-conscious," wrote Judge John Gibbons...