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· 3/9/1976

Pik-Kwik Stores, Inc. v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities

Citations

  • 170 Conn. 327
  • 365 A.2d 1210
  • 1976 Conn. LEXIS 1026
  • 11 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 10,828
  • 26 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 848

How courts have described this case

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

  • addressing claim of sex discrimination but stating principle of reliance on federal law broadly to apply to all protected classes then enumerated in § 46a-60—race, color, national origin or sex
  • addressing claim of sex discrimination but stating principle of reliance on federal law broadly to apply to all protected classes then enumerated in § 46a-60—race, color, national origin or sex
  • employer refusing to hire male interviewee unless he cut his hair
  • employer refusing to hire male interviewee unless he cut his hair
  • ‘‘[a]lthough the language of [Title VII] and that of the [act] differ slightly, it is clear that the intent of the legislature . . . was to make the Connecticut statute coextensive with the federal’’
  • private employer's hair-length regulations not discriminatory under statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Barber, House, Loiselle, Bogdanski, Longo, Babbeb

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