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Public Printer

1 employment law court ruling from public federal records (1987–1987)

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Public Printer appears in one federal employment-law court ruling on record. The case sits within the public sector, where due-process protections, First Amendment retaliation, and union-related (NLRA / state PERB) claims apply. Employment-law cases tracked on Workers' Rights come from CourtListener's federal-court opinion corpus and reflect rulings that produced a written decision — many disputes settle or are dismissed before reaching this stage.

The case involves a discrimination claim. Browse other discrimination rulings for comparable fact patterns and how courts have ruled. Discrimination.

Applicable statutes referenced across these rulings include: Title VII (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e – 2000e-17) — Title VII is the cornerstone federal anti-discrimination statute. EPA (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)) — The Equal Pay Act (EPA) prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions in the same establishment. See the Title VII, EPA reference pages for filing deadlines, employee thresholds, and remedies. Title VII and EPA.

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Claim Types

Discrimination

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Related Laws

Title VII(1)Equal Pay Act(1)

Court Rulings (1)

Thompson

Unknown CourtSep 21, 1987

Petitioner was the lead plaintiff in a class action sex discrimination suit filed against the Public Printer under tit. VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, and the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. sec. 206(d). In 1982, she was awarded back pay under the Equal Pay Act on the basis that her work was similar to, and required skill, effort, and responsibility substantially equal to that required for the bookbinder jobs performed by males. The measure of the back pay owing to her but withheld was the difference in the wages paid to bookbinders and the wages paid to her. In 1982, petitioner was also awarded liquidated damages under the Equal Pay Act. Held, the amount received by petitioner as back pay was not damages for a personal injury but wages due for an action in the nature of breach of contract and therefore the back pay award is not excludable from petitioner's taxable income under sec. 104(a)(2), I.R.C. 1954. Held, further, the liquidated damages award received by petitioner was in the nature of damages for a personal injury and, as such, is excludable from her taxable income undersec. 104(a)(2).

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