Court Opinion

ID: 9460692
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:57:45.161092+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:44.292574
License: Public Domain

BAZELON, Chief Judge,
concurring:
I disagree with my colleagues that the FCC can impose employment requirements in direct conflict with the standards established by Congress in Title VII. The Commission’s mandate to act in the “public interest” does not empower it to contravene an explicit Congressional policy.1 This is so, however, only if the policy in question is constitutional. I am convinced by the reasoning of part I of the court’s opinion that Title VII’s exemption of all “activities” of any “religious corporation, association, educational institution or society” violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Therefore, I would hold the exemption unconstitutional, and not binding on the FCC.

. See Southern Steamship Co. v. Labor Board, 316 U.S. 31, 62 S.Ct. 886, 86 L.Ed. 1246 (1942).