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Jack Greenberg, 57, may be the most experienced civil rights lawyer now practicing in the U.S. He was part of the legal team that won Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools, and that is only one of...
(5 of 13) that seniority systems are immune to suits under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act will probably not guarantee a Women's Legal Defense Fund testimonial. But her majority decision, handed down last Thursday, that an all-woman nursing school in Mississippi was guilty of sex...
Not only has the current Administration made little effort to redress the wage imbalance, in the eyes of many feminists it has set out to blunt the victories of the past ten years. Around the Women's Legal Defense Fund, President Reagan's popularity rating is about as high as...
Down in California, the case involved a Los Angeles busing plan ordered by a state court, not one adopted voluntarily as in Seattle. A 1979 antibusing referendum amended the state constitution to make it tougher for plaintiffs to win mandatory busing orders. California's constitution had required state judges...
But some concession was made, and the reasoning advanced for making this change was invincible. The South African government has declared itself inalterably opposed to the dismantling of apartheid--a system of institutionalized segregation systematically stripping the country's million Blacks of their land and birthright, herding them like cattle...