Legal Opinion
Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Ass'n v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 2, 1986No. 84-1656PublishedCited by 410 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Brennan
In 1975, petitioners were found guilty of engaging in a pattern and practice of discrimination against black and Hispanic individuals (nonwhites) in violation of Title VII of the Civil _ Rights Act of 1964, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq., and ordered to end their discriminatory practices, and to admit a certain percentage of nonwhites to union membership by July 1981. In 1982 and again in 1983, petitioners were found guilty of civil contempt for disobeying the District Court’s earlier orders. They now challenge the District Court’s contempt finding, and also the remedies the court ordered both…
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