Legal Opinion
Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 7, 1993No. Nos. 91-35306, 91-35861PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Salmon cannery workers appeal from the district court’s judgment dismissing with prejudice their claims of racial discrimination in employment. The defendants are three former employers. We ordered supplemental briefing on the question whether Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub.L. No. 102-166, 105 Stat. 1071, 1071-81 (codified in scattered sections of 42 U.S.C.A.), applies to this case. We conclude that one of the provisions of the Act validly exempts this case from the Act’s substantive provisions. Applying the earlier law, as well as the prior mandates of the…
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