Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: been unintelligible it a 402(a) already made the entire Act inapplicable to pre-existing claims. Thr congressional intent behind 101 in particular also belies any conclusion that Congress intended the Act apply only to past- Act cases. There was complete unanimity from the outset the legislative process 1989 that the decision improperly narrowed the law and should rcpudiated. important part Congress' motivation from the outset of the entire legislative process was stop dismissals of 1981 claims under Panerson Even the Bush Administration, whose legislative proposal also rejected Patterson expressed dissatisfaction with "the cases applying Patterson over the past eight months 12 Many ot the dismissals which Congress put the President cited as inprope were in cases which Title VII claims wer ...