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Definitions from Case Law
From 450 U.S. 346 - Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August · 1981Most cited · 798 citing opinions
that a prevailing plaintiff shall receive her costs "except in unusual circumstances," and we held last Term that a claim to an attorney's fee is not defeated if the plaintiff prevails by "settlement rather than through litigation." "Maher v. Gagne", 448 U.S.
122 , 129, 100 S.Ct. 2570, 2575, 65 L.Ed.2d 653 (1980).
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that "absent a discriminatory purpose, the operation of a seniority system cannot be an unlawful employment practice even if the system has some discriminatory consequences." "Hardison, supra," at 82, 97 S.Ct., at 2276; see "American Tobacco Co. v. Patterson," 456 U.S. 63 , 65, 69, 102 S.Ct. 1534, 1535-36, 1537-38, 71 L.Ed.2d 748 (1982).