Legal Opinion
Hishon v. King & Spalding
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 22, 1984No. 82-940PublishedCited by 5,204 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to determine whether the District Court properly dismissed a Title VII complaint alleging that a law partnership discriminated against petitioner, a woman lawyer employed as an associate, when it failed to invite her to become a partner.
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In 1972 petitioner Elizabeth Anderson Hishon accepted a position as an associate with respondent, a large Atlanta law firm established as a general partnership. When this suit was filed in 1980, the firm had more than 50 partners and employed approximately 50 attorneys as associates. Up to that time, no woman had ever served as a…
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