Opinion ID: 537698
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Discrimination Undone: Title VII Revisited

Text: 27 The presence or absence of a recall policy does not legally defeat a direct evidence claim of discrimination in violation of Title VII. The Company had the final burden of proof, by a preponderance of the evidence standard, to prove that the illegal motive of discrimination had been set aside in its employment decision. It failed to meet this burden of proof. Therefore, the decision of the trial court in regard to Ms. Wilson must be reversed. We remand the case for a determination of the relief Ms. Wilson is entitled to including back pay, 12 and, if appropriate, front pay and attorney fees, as prayed for by EEOC. 28 We uphold the trial court's injunction against the Company. As the first Justice Harlan stated in his dissent in the Civil Rights Cases, 13 there cannot be in this Republic, any class of human beings in practical subjection to another class,.... The supreme law of the land has decreed that no authority shall be exercised in this country upon the basis of discrimination, in respect of civil rights, against freemen and citizens because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. To that decree ... everyone must bow.... 14 29 AFFIRMED in part, 30 REVERSED and REMANDED in part.