0000002081 00000 n Similarly, in Washington v. Davis, the Court held that the "job relatedness" requirement was satisfied when the employer demonstrated that a written test was related to success at a police training academy "wholly aside from [the test's] possible relationship to actual performance as a police officer." Especially in relatively small businesses like respondent's, it may be customary and quite reasonable simply to delegate employment decisions to those employees who are most familiar with the jobs to be filled and with the candidates for those jobs. denied, In evaluating claims that discretionary employment practices are insufficiently related to legitimate business purposes, it must be borne in mind that "[c]ourts are generally less competent than employers to restructure business practices, and unless mandated to do so by Congress they should not attempt it." 161-162. The two-and-a-half years following the Inclusive Communities ruling have highlighted several key challenges that fair housing plaintiffs must overcome under that case. In other words, if a company's selection system made it statistically more difficult than pure chance for a member of a certain group, such as women or African-Americans, to get a job, then this could be reasonably viewed as evidence that the selection system was systematically screening out members of that social group. U.S. 424 U.S. 977, 1004] Once an employment practice is shown to have discriminatory consequences, an employer can escape liability only if it persuades the court that the selection process producing the disparity has "`a manifest relationship to the employment in question.'" 947, 987-988 (1982) (discussing feasibility of validating subjective hiring assessments). 1 Record 68. U.S., at 432 0000000576 00000 n 793, 805-811 (1978), and it has not provided more than a rule of thumb Accordingly, the action was dismissed. A disparate-impact claim, in contrast, focuses on the effect of the employment practice. The disparate impact theory of liability is well established as a cognizable theory of liability in fair housing cases. AFN comment: This decision was closely watched in the auto finance industry because earlier disparate impact cases were settled before they reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Because Congress has so clearly and emphatically expressed its intent that Title VII not lead to this result, 42 U.S.C. I therefore cannot join Parts II-C and II-D. (1977)); Guardians Association of New York City Police Dept. that discrimination against a protected group has been caused by a specific employment practice remains with the plaintiff at all times." After exhausting her administrative remedies, she filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Omissions? Suffrage Black and Native American suffrage. ., inadequate training," or his personality had rendered him unqualified for the job. See, e. g., Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, . 475 The circuit courts are . The plurality suggests: "In the context of subjective or discretionary employment decisions, the employer will often find it easier than in the case of standardized tests to produce evidence of a `manifest relationship to the employment in question.'" ] Because the establishment of business necessity is necessarily case specific, I am unwilling to preclude the possibility that an employer could ever establish that a successful selection among applicants required granting the hirer near-absolute discretion. [487 A theory of liability that prohibits an employer from using a facially neutral employment practice that has an unjustified adverse impact on members of a protected class. Without attempting to catalog all the weaknesses that may be found in such evidence, we may note that typical examples include small or incomplete [487 (1977) (issue is whether "a company's business necessitates the adoption of particular leave policies"); Griggs v. Duke Power Co., U.S., at 329 tised the 1991 Act as a bill that would return disparate impact analy-sis to its pre-Ward's Cove status, in reality, the Act largely represents a compromise. Respondent insists, and the United States agrees, that employers' only alternative will be to adopt surreptitious quota systems in order to ensure that no plaintiff can establish a statistical prima facie case. In February 1980, she sought to become supervisor of the tellers in the main lobby; a white male, however, was selected for this job. U.S., at 802 U.S. 229, 253 The Court of Appeals affirmed in relevant part, rejecting petitioner's contention that the District Court erred in failing to apply "disparate impact" analysis to her promotion claims. [487 [487 ] Nor can the requirement that a plaintiff in a disparate-impact case specify the employment practice responsible for the statistical disparity be turned around to shield from liability an employer whose selection process is so poorly defined that no specific criterion can be identified with any certainty, let alone be connected to the disparate effect. See also Zahorik v. Cornell University, 729 F.2d 85, 96 (CA2 1984) ("[The] criteria [used by a university to award tenure], however difficult to apply and however much disagreement they generate in particular cases, are job related. The Supreme Court determined that disparate-impact claims can be brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), but it imposed significant limitations on those suits. . processes, U.S., at 432 See, e. g., Carroll v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 708 F.2d 183, 189 (CA5 1983) ("The flaw in the plaintiffs' proof was its failure to establish the required causal connection between the challenged employment practice (testing) and discrimination in the work force. Footnote 9 Precisely what constitutes a business necessity cannot be reduced, of course, to a scientific formula, for it necessarily involves a case-specific judgment which must take into account the nature of the particular business and job in question. In another case, Cureton v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (1999), the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a bylaw of the NCAA that required prospective student athletes to achieve a score of at least 820 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in order to receive athletic scholarships and financial aid could not be challenged on disparate-impact grounds (as a violation of Title VI), because the single program for which the NCAA received federal funding was unrelated to athletic scholarships and financial aid. U.S. 440 xb```b``[ @Pw2$"dTt"g:"::: jw4U/N9lu@SLC!K ( v (p,Fk b`8H320.0 g`e40 ' of Governors v. Aikens, U.S., at 578 Id., at 256. U.S. 136, 143 [487 In this case, for example, petitioner was apparently told at one point that the teller position was a big responsibility with "a lot of money . The complaint also alleges that older employees were passed over for rehire in favor of less qualified, younger employees. Courts have also referred to the "standard deviation" analysis sometimes used in jury-selection cases. First, the plaintiff must show a prima facie case of disparate impactthat is, that the policy of a city or landlord had a negative impact upon a protected class such as a racial minority group. 438 . Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, Texas Dept. Nor do we think it is appropriate to hold a defendant liable for unintentional discrimination on the basis of less evidence than is required to prove intentional discrimination. See, e. g., McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, supra (discretionary decision not to rehire individual who engaged in criminal acts against employer while laid off); Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters, U.S., at 431 In fact, a quantitative survey of disparate impact cases over the past four decades found that disparate impact plaintiffs only rarely prevail,3 indicating that the availability of disparate impact liability is not an obstacle to legitimate planning or business objectives. U.S. 482 Because the test does not have a cut-off and is only one of many factors in decisions to hire or promote, the fact that blacks score lower does not automatically result in disqualification of disproportionate numbers of blacks as in cases involving cut-offs") (citation omitted); Contreras v. Los Angeles, 656 F.2d 1267, 1273-1274 (CA9 1981) (probative value of statistics impeached by evidence that plaintiffs failed a written examination at a disproportionately high rate because they did not study seriously for it), cert. If an employment practice which operates to exclude [members of a protected group] cannot be shown to be related to job performance, the practice is prohibited. The court found that the two requirements imposed by the company were not related to job performance, noting that many white employees who were not high-school graduates had been performing well in the higher-paying departments. U.S., at 426 a system pervaded by impermissible intentional discrimination, it is difficult to see why Title VII's proscription against discriminatory actions should not apply. Other Courts of Appeals have held that disparate impact analysis may be applied to hiring or promotion systems that involve the use of "discretionary" or "subjective" criteria. Watson filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They may endeavor to impeach the reliability of the statistical evidence, they may offer rebutting evidence, or they may disparage in arguments or in briefs the probative weight which the plaintiffs' evidence should be accorded"). (1975) (employer must "meet the burden of proving that its tests are `job related'"); Dothard v. Rawlinson, by Jim Mattox, Attorney General, Mary F. Keller, Executive Assistant Attorney General, and James C. Todd; for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. 450 Of course, in such circumstances, the employer would bear the burden of establishing that an absence of specified criteria was necessary for the proper functioning of the business. 450 Corrections? Our decisions have not addressed the question whether disparate impact analysis may be applied to cases in which subjective criteria are used to make employment decisions. [ In Smith v. City of Jackson (2005), for example, the court held that when age is an issue in personnel actions, employers need to demonstrate not the existence of business necessities but only that disparate impacts were caused by a reasonable factor other than age, the less-demanding standard allowed by the ADEA. 0000001022 00000 n U.S., at 430 Here a class of women challenged a states height and weight requirements for prison guards at male correctional facilities. Watson then applied for the vacancy created at the drive-in; a white male was selected for that job. (1977) (height and weight requirements); New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer, U.S. 567 U.S., at 253 Washington v. Davis, U.S. 248 U.S. 977, 984] Common employer practices such as hiring, terminating, disciplining, recruiting, assigning, evaluating, and training fall under Title VII. 401 It is true, to be sure, that an employer's policy of leaving promotion decisions to the unchecked discretion of lower level supervisors should itself raise no inference of discriminatory conduct. U.S. 1115 U.S. 977, 995] The employer must have a STRONG BASIS IN EVIDENCE to believe that it would be subject to disparate impact liability before abandoning a selection decide to the detriment of non-minorities. See Clady, supra, at 1428-1429; B. Schlei & P. Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law 98-99, and n. 77 (2d ed. of Community Affairs v. Burdine, supra (discretionary decision to fire individual who was said not to get along with co-workers); United States Postal Service The plurality's suggestion that the employer does not bear the burden of making this showing cannot be squared with our prior cases. denied, We are persuaded that our decisions in Griggs and succeeding cases could largely be nullified if disparate impact analysis were applied only to standardized selection practices. clear that this effect itself runs afoul of Title VII unless it is "necessary to safe and efficient job performance." (i) a complaining party demonstrates that a respondent uses a particular employment practice that causes a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and the respondent fails to demonstrate that the challenged practice is job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity; or See also Nashville Gas Co. v. Satty, 433 4/5 rule- selection rate for members of protected group is less than 80% of rate for highest scoring group creates a prima facie case of d.i. 431 (1977). Another testified that he could not attribute specific weight to any particular factors considered in his promotion decisions because "fifty or a hundred things" might enter into such decisions. 401 For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court is poised to review a case that challenges whether the concept of "disparate impact" can be used to enforce the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The parties present us with stark and uninviting alternatives. We granted certiorari to resolve the conflict. 0000001292 00000 n of Community Affairs v. Burdine, Although this has been relatively easy to do in challenges to standardized tests, it may sometimes be more difficult when subjective selection criteria are at issue. The plaintiff's initial burden of establishing a prima facie case of disparate treatment is "not onerous," id., at 253, and "raises an inference of discrimination only because we presume these acts, if otherwise unexplained, are more likely than not based on the consideration of impermissible factors." It reads as follows: The email address cannot be subscribed. All the supervisors involved in denying Watson the four promotions at issue were white. Teamsters, supra, at 349, and n. 32. 87-1388, Furthermore, she argues, if disparate impact analysis is confined to objective tests, employers will be able to substitute subjective criteria having substantially identical effects, and Griggs will become a dead letter. After a trial of nine days with twenty witnesses and two experts, the district court ruled that Plaintiffs had presented a prima facie case of disparate impact discrimination, and that they were entitled to judgment on their class claims. Ante, at 999. See McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, Definition of Disparate Treatment Noun Treatment of an individual that is less favorable than treatment of others, for a discriminatory purpose Discriminatory treatment of an employee for reasons of his inclusion in a protected class Definition of Disparate Adjective Essentially different, dissimilar, or distinct in kind Origin of Disparate documents the spillover effects of the politics of disparate impact in cases challenging new . Because of these difficulties, we are told, employers will find it impossible to eliminate subjective selection criteria and impossibly expensive to defend such practices in litigation. See also id., at 256 (STEVENS, J., concurring) ("[A]s a matter of law, it is permissible for the police department to use a test In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project The majority concluded that there was no abuse of discretion in the District Court's class decertification decisions. U.S. 977, 1010] U.S., at 433 Id., at 428-429. Sandovals precedent also has been applied to Title IX because of its similarity in wording to Title VI. Under Title VII, the parties covered include the following: All companies and labor unions employing over 15 employees, Employment agencies, State and local government, and Apprenticeship programs. denied, 433 , or "job relatedness," Albemarle Paper Co., 422 U.S. 792, 802 [487 As noted above, the Courts of Appeals are in conflict on the issue. [ See, e. g., Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, Why did president Carter create the Department of Energy. Answer the following questions about the diatonic modes. In either case, a facially neutral practice, adopted without discriminatory intent, may have effects that are indistinguishable from intentionally discriminatory practices. This allocation of burdens reflects the Court's unwillingness to require a trial court to presume, on the basis of the facts establishing a prima facie case, that an employer intended to discriminate, in the face of evidence suggesting that the plaintiff's rejection might have been justified by U.S. 1116 7 We have not limited this principle to cases in which the challenged practice served to perpetuate the effects of pre-Act intentional discrimination. 253, as amended, 42 U.S.C. (1971), this Court held that a plaintiff need not necessarily prove intentional discrimination in order to establish that an employer has violated 703. 2 U.S. 977, 1007] ] Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of Texas et al. 1983); id., at 18-19, and n. 33 (Supp. ] It bears noting that the question on which we granted certiorari, and the question presented in petitioner's brief, is whether disparate-impact analysis applies to subjective practices, not where the burdens fall, if the analysis applies. U.S., at 247 , such a formulation should not be interpreted as implying that the ultimate burden of proof can be shifted to the defendant. 87-1387; Griffin v. Carlin, 755 F.2d 1516, 1522-1525 (CA11 1985). (1985). -332 (absent proof that height and weight requirements directly correlated with amount of strength deemed "essential to good job performance," requirements not justified as business necessity); Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, U.S. 977, 1009] 422 JUSTICE STEVENS, concurring in the judgment. The United States Supreme Court recently held that the disparate impact theory of recovery, which generally refers to claims for "unintentional discrimination," applies to cases brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"). We conclude, accordingly, that subjective or discretionary employment practices may be analyzed under the disparate impact approach in appropriate cases. They also argue that subjective selection practices would be so impossibly difficult to defend under disparate impact analysis that employers would be forced to adopt numerical quotas in order to avoid liability. Texas Dept. A facially neutral employment practice is one that does not appear to be discriminatory on its face; rather it is one that is discriminatory in its . 401 , and n. 13 (hiring and promotion practices can be validated in "any one of several ways"). 1983-1985). U.S. 989 ] See Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co., 810 F.2d 1477, 1485 (CA9) (en banc) ("It would subvert the purpose of Title VII to create an incentive to abandon efforts to validate objective criteria in favor of purely discretionary hiring methods"), on return to panel, 827 F.2d 439 (1987), cert. The criterion must directly relate to a prospective employee's ability to perform the job effectively. Cf. Albemarle Paper Co., 189, 205-207 (1983); Shoben, Differential Pass-Fail Rates in Employment Testing: Statistical Proof Under Title VII, 91 Harv. U.S. 1021 In Pacific Shores . What is the employer's defense in disparate impact cases? Indeed, the less defined the particular criteria involved, or the system relied upon to assess these criteria, the more difficult it may be for a reviewing court to assess the connection between the selection process and job performance. of Community Affairs v. Burdine, Griggs teaches that employment practices "fair in form, but discriminatory in operation," Why is a bona fide seniority system a facially neutral practice? [487 Although we have said that an employer has "the burden of showing that any given requirement must have a manifest relationship to the employment in question," Griggs, for the purpose of predicting ability to master a training program even if the test does not otherwise predict ability to perform on the job"). Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). MAJORITY: Held: Disparate-impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. Watson then sought a position as supervisor of the drive-in bank, but this position was given to a white female. . U.S., at 431 On the other hand, the act generally required plaintiffs to identify with specificity the challenged business practices. U.S., at 432 U.S., at 584 401 U.S., at 425 Duke Power Co. established the disparate impact theory of Title VII cases and Congress codified it in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. We have emphasized the useful role that statistical methods can have in Title VII cases, but we have not suggested that any particular number of "standard deviations" can determine whether a plaintiff has made out a prima facie case in the complex area of employment discrimination. Ante, at 997. Again, the echo from the disparate-treatment cases is unmistakable. Bottom line theory- invalid because the focus is on the discrimination against the individual, not only the ultimate result. -428. Later cases have framed the test in similar terms. App. In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project. The court held that, under its precedent, a Title VII challenge to a discretionary or subjective promotion system can only be analyzed under the disparate treatment model. include such things as customers' preference for employees of a certain race. 440 Lily asked her boss, Duke, for a hike in the salary on the basis that she had profitably completed two important projects in the past six months which might otherwise have . Art Brender argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. What is the prima facie case of disparate impact. In January 1976, Watson was promoted to a position as teller in the Bank's drive-in facility. JUSTICE O'CONNOR announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II-A, II-B, and III, and an opinion with respect to parts II-C and II-D, in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE WHITE, and JUSTICE SCALIA join. The FHA, which followed up the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawed housing discrimination based on race or certain other protected characteristics. (1988), cert. Standardized tests and criteria, like those at issue in our previous disparate impact cases, can often be justified through formal "validation studies," which seek to determine whether discrete selection criteria predict actual on-the-job performance. [487 Griggs v. Duke Power Co., Such a rule would encourage employers to abandon attempts to construct selection mechanisms subject to neutral application for the shelter of vague generalities. DI claims may challenge practices that result in discrimination. [487 Unlike a claim of intentional discrimination, which the McDonnell Douglas factors establish only by inference, the disparate impact caused by an employment practice is directly established by the numerical disparity. See ante, at 994-997. (1973), the Court explained that a plaintiff could meet his burden of establishing a prima facie case of racial discrimination by showing: [ Once the employment practice at issue has been identified, causation must be proved; that is, the plaintiff must offer statistical evidence of a kind and degree sufficient to show that the practice in question has caused the exclusion of applicants for jobs or promotions because of their membership in a protected group. denied, by Bill Lann Lee, Stephen M. Cutler, Joan M. Graff, Patricia A. Shiu, Julius LeVonne Chambers, Ronald L. Ellis, Charles Stephen Ralston, Antonia Hernandez, and E. Richard Larson. 1979 to 2006). Do you have to show intent in disparate impact cases? ibid. (discretionary promotion decision). U.S. 977, 1011] -804 (1973), and Texas Dept. On Watson's motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, the District Court certified a class consisting of "blacks who applied to or were employed by [respondent] on or after October 21, 1979 or who may submit employment applications to [respondent] in the future." Footnote 1 . Prob., No. App. A third decision, confirming that the Fair Housing Act prohibits not only policies that intend to perpetuate racial . The majority affirmed the District Court's conclusion that Watson had failed to prove her claim of racial discrimination under the standards set out in McDonnell Douglas, supra, and Burdine, supra. some courts look at the applications, labor market stats, actual v. anticipated results, and the regression analysis. U.S. 977, 997] [487 Why were members of the Third Estate dissatisfied with life under the Old Regime? 401 While subjective criteria, like objective criteria, will sometimes pose difficult problems for the court charged with assessing the relationship between selection process and job performance, the fact that some cases will require courts to develop a greater factual record and, perhaps, exercise a greater degree of judgment, does not dictate that subjective-selection processes generally are to be accepted at face value, as long as they strike the reviewing court as "normal and legitimate." The U.S. Congress responded to Wards Cove in the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which provided a partial victory to proponents of the theory of disparate impact. The prima facie case of disparate impact established by a showing of a significant statistical disparity is notably different. pending, No. McDonnell Douglas, U.S. 324, 340 In McDonnell Douglas and Burdine, this Court formulated a scheme of burden allocation designed "progressively to sharpen the inquiry into the elusive factual question of intentional discrimination." The fact that job-relatedness cannot always be established with mathematical certainty does not free an employer from its burden of proof, but rather requires a trial court to look to different forms of evidence to assess an employer's claim of business necessity. In the context of subjective or discretionary employment decisions, the employer will often find it easier than in the case of standardized tests to produce evidence of a "manifest relationship to the employment in question." 411 %PDF-1.4 % U.S. 440 . Teamsters v. United States, 483 U.S. 567, 577 U.S. 248, 252 253, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 5 Opinions often differ when managers and supervisors are evaluated, and the same can be said for many jobs that involve close cooperation with one's co-workers or complex and subtle tasks like the provision of On the contrary, the ultimate burden of proving that discrimination against a protected group has been caused by a specific employment practice remains with the plaintiff at all times. Instead, courts appear generally to have judged the "significance" or "substantiality" of numerical disparities on a case-by-case basis. Nevertheless, in Alexander v. Choate (1985), the Supreme Court assumed that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 reaches at least some conduct that has an unjustifiable disparate impact upon the handicapped. A similar statute, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), prohibits the use of standards, criteria, or methods of administration that have the effect of discrimination on the basis of disability.. legal precedent for so-called "disparate-impact" lawsuits involving instances of racial discrimination. U.S. 940 ("statistical evidence showing that an employment practice has the effect of denying the members of one race equal access to employment opportunities"); Teal, supra, at 446 ("significantly discriminatory impact"). ] In McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, A "Disparate Impact" against Justice Roger Clegg June 30, 2015 Disparate Impact The Supreme Court last week ruled 5-4 (Justice Kennedy writing the majority opinion, joined by the four liberals) that "disparate impact" claims may be brought under the Fair Housing Act. 452 ] Both concurrences agree that we should, for the first time, approve the use of disparate impact analysis in evaluating subjective selection practices. some nondiscriminatory reason. In Inclusive Communities, a civil rights organization Our cases make it clear that employers are not required, even when defending standardized or objective tests, to introduce formal "validation studies" showing that particular criteria predict actual on-the-job performance. The district court found that opinions of Plaintiffs' expert were more persuasive that MWS's expert. U.S. 1004 -247 ("hiring and promotion practices disqualifying substantially disproportionate numbers of blacks"); Dothard, On April 11th, 1968, Lyndon B. 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