context: Maj. Op. at 431. To the extent this blanket statement is intended to condemn all affirmative action plans that adopt a racial parity goal, it is incorrect. Adopting race-conscious employment practices that seek to achieve racial balance is a time-honored, court-approved, appropriate remedial response to discrimination. Affirmative action plans approved by courts have striven to achieve this very result.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 99 S.Ct. 2724, 2724
citation_a.parenthetical: approving plan that reserves 50 percent of the positions for blacks "until the percentage of black[s] ... in the plant is commensurate with the percentage of blacks in the local labor force"
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Weber, 443 U.S. at 197, 99 S.Ct. at 2724 (approving plan that reserves 50 percent of the positions for blacks “until the percentage of black[s] ... in the plant is commensurate with the percentage of blacks in the local labor force”); see also Sheet Metal Workers, 106 S.Ct. at 3036 (describing instances when a court might order an employer “to hire and to admit qualified minorities roughly in proportion to the number of qualified minorities in the work force”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 106 S.Ct. 3036, 3036
citation_b.parenthetical: describing instances when a court might order an employer "to hire and to admit qualified minorities roughly in proportion to the number of qualified minorities in the work force"
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Weber, 443 U.S. at 197, 99 S.Ct. at 2724 (approving plan that reserves 50 percent of the positions for blacks “until the percentage of black[s] ... in the plant is commensurate with the percentage of blacks in the local labor force”); see also Sheet Metal Workers, 106 S.Ct. at 3036 (describing instances when a court might order an employer “to hire and to admit qualified minorities roughly in proportion to the number of qualified minorities in the work force”).