RE: Civil Service Veterans' Preference

From: JAMES LEONARD (jleonard@crassus.onu.edu)
Date: 05/25/93


In Message Tue, 25 May 1993 12:11:53 -0700 (PDT), Mary Whisner
whisner@u.washington.edu> writes, in pertinent part:

>See Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, 442 U.S. 256
>(1979), which held that an absolute lifetime preference to veterans was
>not unlawful discrimination against women under the Equal Protection
>clause of the fourteenth amendment, even though, at the time, there was a
>quota limiting women in the military to 2%, and fewer than 2% of
>Massachusetts women were women.

WHAT WERE THE OTHER 98%?

_____________________
James Leonard
Professor of Law
Law Library Director
Ohio Northern University

jleonard@crassus.onu.edu



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