Phillips Vs Martin Marietta Case Study

Phillips VS. Martin Marietta This case is about a denied employment because of her sex in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1966 Martin Marietta Corp., informed Ida Phillips that it was not accepting job applications from women with preschool-age children, but they were employing men with preschool-age children. I think that this case was fairly settled by the Supreme Court. That is because Phillips and Martin had to go back to “lower” court after the Supreme Court ruling and settle with Martin Marietta. This lawsuit went to trial because there was no clear cut answer if the Martin Marietta company violated the Civil Rights Act. Phillips sued that she had been denied employment because of her sex in violation. The district court granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment by holding that, because seventy-five to eighty percent of the applicants hired for the position for which Phillips applied were women, there was insufficient evidence that there was bias against women. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed, but it was later taken to the Supreme Court to be overseen that justice had been served. The suit first went to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and they ruled in favor of

They decided this because there was a lack of evidence to determine whether having preschool-age children was relevant to the business qualifications of the female candidates. The Supreme Court unanimously voted for Ida Phillips. Justice Thurgood Marshall came to the conclusion that “the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires uniform minimum qualifications for both male and female candidates. The exception for qualifications that may be different based on actual business necessity was only intended to apply to jobs that require specific physical characteristics; it was not intended to justify stereotypical characterizations of traditional gender roles”