West Coast Hotel Co. V. Parrish Case Study

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As it is stated in the verdict of the baby M case, "there are, in a civilized country, things that money cannot buy." Many precedents in the US have already shown to us that, one cannot purchase another's life, death, certain rights, or in this case, reproduction capacity. That the action is voluntary or not cannot justify, or vindicate the morality of this conduct. In the case of West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, Parrish accused the company of paying less to women than men for the same job. In some ways, other female laborers who didn't stand in the court to be plaintiff can be seen as those who gave acquiesce in the lower payment. Therefore, the compensation was accepted by both parties, when those female employees took the curtailed salary,

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