Justice for Wards Cove (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
The book tells the story of a highly controversial civil rights case which involved the Alaska salmon industry. That industry is an intense summer operation in mostly remote wilderness. The participants were drawn from a wide range of sources: Natives who...
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The book tells the story of a highly controversial civil rights case which involved the Alaska salmon industry. That industry is an intense summer operation in mostly remote wilderness. The participants were drawn from a wide range of sources: Natives who had harvested salmon for centuries, Italian, Croatian and Scandinavian fishermen and Asians who historically manned the canning lines. The unskilled cannery work was supplied by a predominantly Filipino controlled union. In the early 1970s young activist members of that union initiated a class action suit against Wards Cove Packing Company contending that minority employees were segregated into separate housing and messing and excluded from better paying jobs. The plaintiff s lost the case at trial to the surprise of many and multiple appeals followed. The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, over a bitter dissent, ruled in favor of Wards Cove holding that discrimination had not been proven by either the class of workers or by any single worker. The high courts decision was roundly criticized in the press and academia and Congress attempted to intervene. The executive branch became an advocate, first as a party, and later as a friend of the court but changed sides after an election. The case tested the boundary of separation of powers but ultimately the Supreme Court found a way to insulate its decisional process from Congressional interference. There has been a lingering misunderstanding of the case in the media. It has been recently re-enacted as a denial of justice and it has been described by some academics as the death knell of the civil rights movement. This book explains how the plaintiff s lost the main event at trial and how multiple appeals heard by 27 judges did not change the facts as found by the trial court as to what actually happened.
Autoren-Porträt von Douglas M. Fryer
Douglas M. Fryer served as lead counsel for the defense in this class action case. In his youth he went to sea on voyages to India and the Arctic and worked as a commercial salmon fisherman in Southeast Alaska. Graduating from the University of Washington, with degrees in Business (BA) and Law (JD), Order of the Coif, he was recruited under the Attorney General Honors Program to serve as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice. Later he was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney by Robert F. Kennedy and Byron White. Upon leaving the government service he engaged in the private practice, specializing in maritime law and handled many cases arising in the North Pacific and Alaska. He was appointed by the federal government of Canada to handle a major west coast oil spill case and served for many years as disciplinary counsel for the Washington State Bar Association. Mr. Fryer was 40 years old when asked to defend Wards Cove Packing Company in this long lasting litigation and he was 68 when the case was finally concluded. He lives in Anacortes Washington with his wife Karen where they are active sailors.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Douglas M. Fryer
- 2016, 324 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Xlibris US
- ISBN-10: 1514477076
- ISBN-13: 9781514477076
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.07.2016
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