Legal Opinion
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 1, 1989No. 87-1167PublishedCited by 3,623 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Brennan
Ann Hopkins was a senior manager in an office of Price Waterhouse when she was proposed for partnership in 1982. She was neither offered nor denied admission to the partnership; instead, her candidacy was held for reconsideration the following year. When the partners in her office later re*232fused to repropose her for partnership, she sued Price Waterhouse under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000e et seq., charging that the firm had discriminated against her on the basis of sex in its decisions regarding partnership. Judge Gesell in the Federal…
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