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· 4/15/1935

Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Valjean

Citations

  • 76 F.2d 592
  • 25 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 192
  • 1935 U.S. App. LEXIS 2621

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that defendant employer should not escape liability because it maintained two discriminatory practices which operated concurrently to exclude black applicants
  • stating that defendant employer should not escape liability because it maintained two discriminatory practices which operated concurrently to exclude black applicants
  • upholding an award of lost overtime granted to FMLA indicates that “the minimum hours of service prevailing plaintiffs in a Title VII case
  • “[L]ost overtime pay ‘should be included in back pay,’ and a district court must ensure that back pay awards ‘completely redress the economic injury the claimant has suffered____’”
  • “[L]ost overtime pay ‘should be included in back pay,’ and a court must ensure back pay awards ‘completely redress the economic injury the claimant has suffered***’ ”
  • “Both the Second Circuit and the D.C. Circuit have held that merely adjusting the dollars the plaintiff would have earned to compensate for diminished purchasing power because of inflation does not compensate for the lost use of money in the in- tervening time.”

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Judges: Woodward

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