Parker v. United States

Parentheticals

• holding that plaintiff who accepted a lower paying job because it was the best job available had mitigated damages

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Farmer Brothers Company, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Diana Estrada, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

• holding that plaintiff who accepted a lower paying job because it was the best job available had mitigated damages

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Farmer Bros.

• noting that the Equal Pay Act applies to jobs “held in immediate succession as well as simultaneously”

  Sharon D. Brinkley-Obu v. Hughes Training, Incorporated, Sharon D. Brinkley-Obu v. Hughes Training, Incorporated

• holding, under the Jones Act, analogous to FELA, that an instruction was required because evidence of knowledge of dangerous conditions existing in the "line of duty” and carelessness comprised the entire defense

  Collins v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

• holding, under the Jones Act, analogous to FELA, that an instruction was required because evidence of knowledge of dangerous conditions existing in the "line of duty" and carelessness comprised the entire defense

  Collins v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

• reversing a lower court decision which ruled that a male-dominated bank management training program was bona fide

  Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party

• reversing a lower court decision which ruled that a male-dominated bank management training program was bona fide

  Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

• primary duty of NLRB General Counsel in back pay proceedings is to show the gross back pay due each claimant

  Sennello v. Reserve Life Insurance

• "by 'lowering their sights' and accepting what might have been the best job available, the claimants were doing all that could reasonably be expected of them by way of mitigation"

  37 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1232, 36 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 35,166 Michaele Cowart Nord, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee, Cross-Appellant v. United States Steel Corporation, Cross-Appellee

• evidence of bargaining history 'not admissible to explain meaning of written contract term which is clear on its face and not ambiguous

  Lodge No. 12 of District 37, International Assoc. of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Fmc Corp.

• although the court generally recognized that a company might properly inaugurate or continue a training program with resulting pay differentials, the exemption was inapplicable to the particular program since the program was discriminatory

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Aetna Insurance Company

• the Hodgson court found that, even though the training program contained these elements, the program was in violation of the Act because it was coterminus with a stereotyped province called man’s work

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Cross-Appellee v. First Citizens Bank of Billings, Cross-Appellant