Stephen Dodge v. Giant Food, Inc

How courts have described this case

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• grooming regulations that prohibited men from wearing long hair and required women with long hair to secure it did not constitute sex discrimination violating Title VII: “Giant enforces strict grooming regulations against both male and female employees.”
• “Title VII was never intended to encompass sexual classifications having only an insignificant effect on employment opportunities.”
• “It must first be determined that a discrimination on the basis of sex has occurred. If there is no sex discrimination, the inquiry ends. However, if the court concludes that an employer has discriminated on the basis of sex then it is the employer’s burden....”
• “It must first be determined that a discrimination on the basis of sex has occurred. If there is no sex discrimination, the inquiry ends. However, if the court concludes that an employer has discrimi- nated on the basis of sex then it is the employer’s burden … .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).