While still leaving some questions unanswered, the guidelines provided in the "Weber" case have clearly helped to clarify the legal status of race-conscious employee selection procedures. (Author/IRT)

Examines the constitutional and statutory background of the affirmative action/reverse discrimination issue and analyzes judicial decisions confronting the dilemma. Explores grounds on which the Supreme Court might permit voluntary affirmative action using quotas. Available from Executive Secretary, Vanderbilt Law Review, Vanderbilt University,…

The equal employment opportunity policies of the Reagan administration may be summarized in the following manner: while the administration will not retreat from the historic commitment to enforce federal civil rights laws, it will no longer insist upon, or in any way support, the use of quotas or any numerical or statistical formula designed to…