Legal Opinion
Stout v. International Business MacHines Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 16, 1992No. 91 Civ. 4983 (GLG)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOETTEL, District Judge.
After a prolonged battle between Democrats in Congress and the White House, a legislative armistice entitled the Civil Rights Act of 1991 was finally hammered out and signed by the President. Since its enactment, the Act has been the eye of a storm driven by political impasse and conflicting precedent whose judicial winds have reached gale force. Those winds have now swept this court into the controversy surrounding the 1991 Act.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Plaintiff Charles E. Stout was an employee of International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) for some…
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- Bradley v. School Bd. of RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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