Piscataway Township Board of Education v. Taxman - Impact

The case of Piscataway Township Board of Education v. Taxman required the court of appeals to carefully reexamine Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Title VII was enacted to further two primary goals: to end discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, thereby guaranteeing equal opportunity in the workplace, and to remedy the segregation and underrepresentation of minorities in the work force. A coalition of civil rights groups believed that a successful challenge by Sharon Taxman in the Supreme Court could have undermined affirmative action through the invocation of Title VII by aggrieved whites in similar circumstances.