431 U.S. 553 (1977) Cited 1,338 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that an allegedly discriminatory practice that was no longer actionable could not form the predicate of a challenge to a neutral seniority system
Holding that statistics that "did not demonstrate that women received grade increases less often than men as a regular occurrence" failed to establish disparate impact
Holding that to be continuing, the discrimination may not be limited to isolated incidents, but must pervade a series or pattern of events which continue into the filing period
Finding that although a plaintiff had named the United States Postal Service and three local departments, he was barred from amending his complaint to name the Postmaster General of the United States
In Miller v. Shawmut Bank of Boston, 726 F. Supp. 337 (D.Mass. 1989), the court determined that a promotion to personal banker from customer services representative was sufficient to save a ยง 1981 claim from summary judgment, particularly when internal company memos showed that the jobs were considerably different.
Holding that three denied promotions over the course of three years, where the decisions were made by three different selection officials and involved different qualifications were not sufficiently related to constitute a continuing violation