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Supreme Court· 6/16/1977

Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison

Citations

  • 432 U.S. 63
  • 97 S. Ct. 2264
  • 53 L. Ed. 2d 113
  • 1977 U.S. LEXIS 115
  • 14 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 7620
  • 14 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1697

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  • holding that employer reasonably accommodated Seventh Day Adventist employee by, inter alia, agreeing to permit any shift exchanges that employee could arrange on his own
  • holding that to leave the employer short-handed would involve costs to the employer “in the form of lost efficiency”
  • holding that requirement of reasonable accommodation of religious beliefs was defensible construction of Title VII before Congress amended statute to explicitly so require
  • holding that to leave the em ployer short-handed would involve costs to the employer “in the form of lost efficiency”
  • holding that an agreed-upon seniority system did not “give way” to an employer’s duty to “reasonably accommodate” religious observance under Title VII
  • holding that an agreed-upon seniority system did not \give way\ to an employer's duty to \reasonably accommodate\ religious observance under Title VII

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Judges: Brennajst, White, Burger, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, Marshall, Brennan

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