Is a minority person entitled to affirmative relief under the Civil Rights Act as to those who have individually been the subject of discrimination?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hull v. Cason, 151 Cal.Rptr. 438, 88 Cal.App.3d 768 (Cal. App. 1978):
It thus becomes clear that minority persons are entitled to affirmative relief, or to be "made whole," under the Civil Rights Act only as to those who had Individually been the subject of earlier, or historical, job discrimination. In the case at bench, as noted, there was neither evidence, nor contention,
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Washington v. Davis, supra, 426 U.S. 229, 96 S.Ct. 2040, 48 L.Ed.2d 597.
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