affirmative action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 424 U.S. 747 - Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · 1976Most cited · 3,578 citing opinions
an award of seniority status, for the thrust of "affirmative action" redressing the wrong incurred by an unfair labor practice is to make "the employees whole, and thus restor(e) the economic status quo that would have obtained but for the company's wrongful (act)." NLRB v. Rutter-Rex Mfg.
How often courts cite the case defining “affirmative action”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “affirmative action” — 3,540 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.