Court Opinion

ID: 9426618
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:18:28.084756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:01.947404
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Blackmun,
concurring in part.
I join the judgment of the Court and concur in its opinion insofar as it holds (a) that General Electric’s exclusion of disability due to pregnancy is not, per se, a violation of § 703 (a)(1) of Title VII; (b) that the plaintiffs in this case therefore had at least the burden of proving discriminatory effect; and (c) that they failed in that proof. I do not join any inference or suggestion in the Court’s opinion — if any such inference or suggestion is there — that effect may never be a controlling factor in a Title VII case, or that Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U. S. 424 (1971), is no longer good law.