Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Williams v. Hevi-Duty Electric Co.
Williams v. Hevi-Duty Elec. Co., 484 U.S. 970 (1987)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1987-11-30
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- construing parallel provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e
- reference to the rights of the victim's family during the prosecutor's sentencing argument did not violate Booth
- individual defendant is not Title VII “employer” because the “employer ... is the one against whom affirmative relief, including backpay, may be adjudged”
- this aggravating circumstance supported death sentence where victim shot in his home
- plant manager not an employer within meaning of Title VII
- prior conviction of a violent felony
Citator
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice White would grant certiorari.