The law and politics of race: the Civil Rights Act of 1991
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The impetus for the Civil Rights Act of 1991 was several conservative US Supreme Court decisions in 1989 which emasculated parts of the 1964 law. Congress succeeded in passing the act a year after George Bush blocked it with a veto in 1990. The act restores some of the 1964 protections which the Court had invalidated. It goes beyond the older law by providing punitive and compensatory damages as remedies for job discrimination and by capping damages due to the unpredictability of excessive awards by juries.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1993
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Recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board: some perspectives from the chairman about labor law in the '90s
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the 1990s has had an increasing backlog because of having to function with three members instead of five and because of the political environment it has had to work in. The NLRB has still made some progress in releasing some of its oldest cases. Issues of cases released in 1997 have included such issues as union election, the duty to bargain collectively, concerted activity and economic pressure and union security.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1998
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Retroactivity of the 1991 Civil Rights Act in Title VII cases
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Federal courts must decide if the Civil Rights Act of 1991 applies retroactively. In order to answer this question, they must analyze the legislative history of the act for the legislature's intent. They must also take Supreme Court case law on statutory interpretation into consideration. Nothing in the law's language or legislative history provides a clear directive for applying it retroactively.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1992
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