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Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth
U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.
Griggs v. Duke Power (1971)
the Court put the burden on employers to show that an employment policy whose effect is discriminatory, even if discrimination was not the intent of the policy, is a "business necessity."
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
2007 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that claims of sex discrimination in pay under Title VII were not timely because discrimination charges were not filed with the EEOC within the required 180-day time frame.
Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation
1971 U.S. case that stated that an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with preschool-aged children while hiring men with such children.
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