· Washington, D.C. / Ketchikan, Alaska

Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio Decided

injustice

The Supreme Court made employment-discrimination claims harder to prove in a suit by Filipino and Alaska Native cannery workers (Alaskeros) of ILWU Local 37; Congress partly reversed the ruling in the 1991 Civil Rights Act.

Communities
  • Filipino American
Topics
  • labor
Event type
  • court case

Sources

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