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Washington v. Davis : ウィキペディア英語版 | Washington v. Davis
''Washington v. Davis'', , was a United States Supreme Court case that established that laws that have a racially discriminatory effect, but that were not adopted to advance a racially discriminatory purpose, are not invalid under the United States Constitution. ==Facts== Two African Americans applied for positions in the Washington, DC police department and sued after being turned down. They claimed that the Department used racially discriminatory hiring procedures, including its use of a test of verbal skills (Test 21) that was failed disproportionately by African Americans. The plaintiffs sued the Department, alleging that the test constituted impermissible employment discrimination under both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the United States Constitution. Since the respondents were filing the action in Washington, DC, which is a federal territory and not a state, the constitutional provision the plaintiffs sued under was the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment instead of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; the Equal Protection Clause directly applies only to the states, but the Supreme Court ruled in ''Bolling v. Sharpe'' that the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which applies to the federal government, contains an equal protection component.
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