Williams v. Glickman

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing the plaintiff’s claim against the Secretary of Agriculture because of a failure to “allege impairment of rights by nongovernmental discrimination or impairment under color of state law”
• “Significantly, the statutory definitions of ‘program or activity’ and ‘program’ do not include federal agencies. Thus, Title VI does not apply to programs conducted directly by federal agencies.”
• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq., does not apply to programs conducted by federal agencies
• “Title VI was meant to cover only the situations where federal funding is given to a non-federal entity which, in turn, provides financial assistance to the ultimate beneficiary.”
• “[T]he Court does not have the authority to rewrite a clear, specific statutory provision even if it believed that such a provision was inconsistent with a general statement of purpose.”
• “The plaintiffs claim that it would be ‘inconceivable’ that Title VI should not apply to discrimination by federal agencies. However, the language of the statute and the cases addressing the issue support just that conclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).