Legal Opinion
Forts v. Ward
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 11, 1979No. 77 Civ. 1560PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OWEN, District Judge.
Prior to 1976, only women had been allowed to serve as guards 1 in the living and sleeping corridors of the state prison for women in Bedford, New York. 2 In 1976, the State, in perceived compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opened the posts to any qualified applicant regardless of sex. 3 Those men who thereafter successfully bid for these posts under their union’s collective bargaining agreement with the State began their duties in February 1977. Within months this action for injunctive relief and monetary damages was commenced by certain…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Louis Wolfish v. Honorable Edward LeviCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Vicente Galvan and Marcelino Torres v. Louis L. Levine, Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York,defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- Meir Kahane, Plaintiff-Petitioner-Appellee v. Norman Carlson, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Defendants-Respondents-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
- United States Ex Rel. Wolfish v. LeviDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1977
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Lee v. DownsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1981
- David L. Canedy, Jr. v. Officer Peggy Boardman, Warden Jeffrey Endicott, Karen Radtke, and John BellCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- 30 Fair empl.prac.cas. 624, 30 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,176 Mary Delia Russaw Hardin v. Leroy N. Stynchcomb, 1 Etc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- Forts v. WardCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Floyd E. Cumbey v. Larry Meachum, Director, Gary Maynard, Warden, and Sharon HartlessCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1982
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