Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp.

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Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 9, 1970 Decided January 25, 1971
Full case name	Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation
Citations	400 U.S. 542 (more) 91 S. Ct. 496; 27 L. Ed. 2d 613
Holding
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with pre-school-age children while hiring men with such children.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Case opinions
Per curiam
Concurrence	Marshall
Laws applied
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII

Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp., 400 U.S. 542 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court landmark case in which the Court held that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with pre-school-age children while hiring men with such children. It was the first sex discrimination case under Title VII to reach the Court.