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Johnson v. Transportation Agency - Significance, Related Cases, Further Readings

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Petitioner

Paul E. Johnson

Respondent

Transportation Agency of Santa Clara County, California

Petitioner's Claim

That the agency's affirmative action program violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by promoting some and withholding promotion from others on the basis of gender.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner

Paul J. Larkin, Jr.

Chief Lawyer for Respondent

Penelope M. Cooper

Justices for the Court

Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr. (writing for the Court), Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., John Paul Stevens

Justices Dissenting

William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Byron R. White

Place

Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision

24 March 1987

Decision

The agency's affirmative action program did not violate Title VII provisions.

Additional Topics

Johnson v. Transportation Agency - Further Readings

Johnson v. Transportation Agency - Significance

The court extended legal protection to a greater range of affirmative action programs: those that are gender-based, those that are used by public employers, and those designed to remedy an uneven distribution of women in the work force even when that employer has not discriminated in the past. The Santa Clara County Transportation Agency adopted its affirmative action plan in December of 1978, aft…

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