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· 3/12/1985

Higgins v. Hicks Co.

Citations

  • 756 F.2d 681

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Interest, overtime, shift differentials, and fringe benefits such as vacation and sick pay are among the items which should be included in back pay.”
  • where individual plaintiffs demonstrate that they are victims of a discriminatory policy, rather than one instance of unlawful discrimination, “these individuals were in substantially the same position as the Teamsters and Franks plaintiffs”
  • “The decision to dismiss a claim, like the decision to enter a default judgment, ought to be a last resort—ordered only if noncompliance with discovery orders is due to willful or bad faith disregard for those orders.”

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Judges: Fagg

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