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Library of Congress v. Shaw

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Superseded by statute
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
478 U.S. 310
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
45 of 45
Citing cases (total)
45
Treatment dates
1993
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. All 45 flagged citations to Library of Congress v. Shaw have been read. Congress displaced its Title VII bar on interest against the United States, while courts continue to apply its general no-interest rule.
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45 later cases cite Library of Congress v. Shaw; 45 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Superseded by statute

  • The Ninth Circuit held that the Civil Rights Act of 1991 displaced Shaw's Title VII rule against interest on judgments against the federal government.

    Estate of Barbara L. Reynolds v. Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor · Ninth Circuit · filed

    Section 114, at issue in this case, overrules Library of Congress v. Shaw, 478 U.S. 310, 106 S.Ct. 2957, 92 L.Ed.2d 250 (1986), by providing that federal employees are entitled to all of the remedies available under Title VII, including interest.
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