United Steelworkers v. Weber

United Steelworkers v. Weber
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 28, 1979 Decided June 27, 1979
Full case name	United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber et al.
Citations	443 U.S. 193 (more) 93 S. Ct. 705; 35 L. Ed. 2d 147
Case history
Prior	Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp., 415 F. Supp. 761 (E.D. La. 1976); affirmed, 563 F.2d 216 (5th Cir. 1977); rehearing en banc denied, 571 F.2d 337 (5th Cir. 1978); cert. granted, 439 U.S. 1045 (1978).
Subsequent	Rehearing denied, 444 U.S. 889 (1979); vacated and remanded, 611 F.2d 132 (5th Cir. 1980).
Holding
United Steel workers of America did not violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[1] as their affirmative action plan attempted to help minority workers and did not prevent other employees from advancing.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Brennan, joined by Stewart, White, Marshall, Blackmun
Concurrence	Blackmun
Dissent	Burger
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Burger
Powell and Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

United Steelworkers of America v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979), was a case regarding affirmative action in which the United States Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,^[1] which prohibits racial discrimination by private employers, does not condemn all private, voluntary, race-conscious affirmative action plans.^[2] The Court's decision reversed lower courts' rulings in favor of Brian Weber whose lawsuit beginning in 1974 challenged his employer's hiring practices.