“Part II examines the remarkable record of congressional amendments rejecting narrowing interpretations of employment discrimination laws. Occasionally, Congress has codified a narrowing interpretation, but as in the Civil Rights Act of 1991, almost always as part of a package of expansionary amendments, many explicitly rejecting decisions of the Supreme Court. Far more common are amendments targeting narrowing interpretations by the Supreme Court and overruling those decisions. Such amendments have occurred under all the major civil rights statutes, as early as 1978 and as late as 2009.”

December 1, 2014

Source: George Rutherglen. Title VII As Precedent: Past and Prologue for Future Legislation. Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. pg. 161. June 2014.

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