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· 6/25/1984

Cooper v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Citations

  • 467 U.S. 867
  • 104 S. Ct. 2794
  • 81 L. Ed. 2d 718
  • 1984 U.S. LEXIS 119
  • 52 U.S.L.W. 4853
  • 39 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 301
  • 35 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1
  • 34 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 34,445

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that members of a class of black employees of a Federal Reserve Bank could maintain separate actions against the bank under Title VII
  • holding that “[p]roving isolated or sporadic discriminatory acts by the employer is insufficient to establish a prima facie case of a pattern or practice of discrimination .... ” (emphasis added)
  • holding that members of a class of black employees of a Federal Reserve Bank could maintain separate actions against the bank under Title VII
  • holding that members of a class of black employees of a Federal Reserve Bank could maintain separate actions against the bank under Title VII
  • concluding that an attempt to prove a< “pattern or practice” claim “may fail even though discrimination against one or two individuals has been proved”
  • holding that resolution of a class action pertaining to whether employer engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination did not preclude claims that employer discriminated against individual employees

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Judges: Stevens, Marshall, Powell

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