Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Third Circuit -- Gregory Meditz v. City of Newark

Summary judgment inappropriate on Title VII disparate impact claim against a municipality where the statistical evidence establishes a disparity - regardless of congruency between hiring demographics and municipality's population.

Plaintiff argues that skewing hiring towards the population of the municipality creates disparate impact on Caucasian applicants.

Gregory Meditz v. City of Newark
Compiled by D.E. Frydrychowski, who is, not incidentally, not giving you legal advice.

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