The In June 2015, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Cf. After splitting the class along this line, the court found that the class of black employees did not meet the numerosity requirement of Rule 23(a); accordingly, this subclass was decertified. The majority concluded that there was no abuse of discretion in the District Court's class decertification decisions. Instead, courts appear generally to have judged the "significance" or "substantiality" of numerical disparities on a case-by-case basis. . The project was approved by the City of Los Angeles (the City) and includes an expansion of a shopping mall and new offices, apartments, hotels, and condominiums. Such conduct had apparently ceased thereafter, but the employer continued to follow employment policies that had "a markedly disproportionate" adverse effect on blacks. U.S. 977, 987] This article documents the spillover effects of the politics of disparate impact in cases challenging new forms of vote denial under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. L. Rev. Teamsters, supra, at 349, and n. 32. By: Eli Scher-Zagier . Thus, for example, if the employer in Griggs had consistently preferred applicants who had a high school diploma [487 253, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Even so, plaintiffs have rarely prevailed, because the accommodation process examines each person individually, while the theory of disparate impact is designed to look at the effects on a group. , n. 1 (1983) ("We have consistently distinguished disparate-treatment cases from cases involving facially neutral employment standards that have disparate impact on minority applicants"). Watson applied for the vacancy, but the white female who was the supervisor of the drive-in bank was selected instead. 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. 433 Footnote 5 -247 ("hiring and promotion practices disqualifying substantially disproportionate numbers of blacks"); Dothard, [487 It is completely unrealistic to assume that unlawful discrimination is the sole cause of people failing to gravitate to jobs and employers in accord with the laws of chance. The legal theory of disparate impact, created by the Supreme Court in the 1971 case of Griggs v. Duke Power, allows for claims of racial discrimination when a policy or procedure leads to racially disproportionate results even if that policy or procedure was established without discriminatory intent. Watson filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Id., at 85. U.S., at 802 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." Cf. In one notable case, a federal district court upheld a universitys requirement that applicants hold a doctoral degree in order to obtain positions as assistant professors, even though the requirement had a disparate impact on African Americans. (1973), the Court explained that a plaintiff could meet his burden of establishing a prima facie case of racial discrimination by showing: [ U.S., at 254 U.S. 977, 1010] The circuit courts are . by Lawrence Z. Lorber and J. Robert Kirk; for the Landmark Legal Foundation by Jerald L. Hill and Mark J. Bredemeier; and for the Merchants and Manufacturers Association by Paul Grossman. Nevertheless, it bears noting that this statement When the U.S. Supreme Court first recognized the theory, it was hailed as a breakthrough for civil rights. Another fourteen challenged policies or regulations on the basis of disparate impact against persons with disabilities.233 Although not all disparate impact claims See, e. g., Fudge v. Providence Fire Dept., 766 F.2d 650, 656-659 (CA1 1985). U.S., at 329 Suffrage Black and Native American suffrage. 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.'" 42 U.S.C. 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. professional services or personal counseling. some courts look at the applications, labor market stats, actual v. anticipated results, and the regression analysis. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended ("Fair Housing Act" or "Act"), prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, or financing of dwellings and in other housing-related activities because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. 2000e-2(j), we think it imperative to explain in some detail why the evidentiary standards that apply in these cases should serve as adequate safeguards against the danger that Congress recognized. Ante, at 999. 433 (1979) (rule against employing drug addicts); Connecticut v. Teal, Unless an employment practice producing the disparate effect is justified by "business necessity," ibid., it violates Title VII, for "good intent or absence of discriminatory intent does not redeem ("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"). -256 (1981), than it does to those the Court has established for disparate-impact claims. 1607 (1987). 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." 422 Do you have to show intent in disparate impact cases? 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"). After exhausting her administrative remedies, she filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Watson argued that the District Court had erred in failing to apply "disparate impact" analysis to her claims of discrimination in promotion. U.S., at 329 Bd. ] 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. 434 . -804 (1973), and Texas Dept. Id., at 428-429. In the following illustrative examples of agency approaches to defining adverse disparate impact in specific applications, agencies have identified specific impacts prohibited by Title VI; identified factors they will consider in making such determinations on a case by case basis; and required (or recommended) that their recipients establish formal definitions. 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. Griggs v. Duke Power Co., , n. 14. In the 1880 United States presidential election, a majority of eligible African-American voters cast a ballot in every Southern state except for . The court also concluded that Watson had failed to show that these reasons were pretexts for racial discrimination. U.S. 977, 1007] data sets and inadequate statistical techniques. U.S. 977, 994] denied, . See, e. g., Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co., 810 F.2d 1477 (CA9) (en banc), on return to panel, 827 F.2d 439 Unless it is proved that an employer intended to disfavor the plaintiff because of his membership in a protected class, a disparate-treatment claim fails. The court switched the burden of proof to plaintiffs, requiring that they demonstrate that practices by employers that cause disparate impacts are not business necessities. Cf. Supreme Court recognizes disparate-impact claims under FHA - implications for property insurers . (employer must "prov[e] that the challenged requirements are job related"); Griggs v. Duke Power Co., On the other hand, the act generally required plaintiffs to identify with specificity the challenged business practices. [487 . Because Congress has so clearly and emphatically expressed its intent that Title VII not lead to this result, 42 U.S.C. 113. 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 application or effect. (1982), quoting Griggs v. Duke Power Co., (1986). allow for women to be excluded from firefighters' positions. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., upholding the use of disparate impact theory in cases brought under the Fair Housing Act. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN and JUSTICE MARSHALL join, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Because Watson had proceeded zealously on behalf of the job applicants, however, the court went on to address the merits of their claims. 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. App. Footnote 3 It would be equally unrealistic to suppose that employers can eliminate, or discover and explain, the myriad of innocent causes that may lead to statistical imbalances in the composition of their work forces. Among the many provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII prohibits employers from using purportedly neutral tests or selection procedures that have the effect of disproportionately excluding persons based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), or national origin if the tests or selection procedures are not "job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity." Disparate impact is usually unintentional in nature; disparate treatment is the term for outright and willful discrimination. 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. U.S. 324, 340 It would be a most radical interpretation of Title VII for a court to enjoin use of an historically settled process and plainly relevant criteria largely because they lead to decisions which are difficult for a court to review"). The violation alleged in a disparate-treatment challenge focuses exclusively on the intent of the employer. (1987). 0000002616 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." I therefore cannot join Parts II-C and II-D. , or "job relatedness," Albemarle Paper Co., And while common sense surely plays a part in this assessment, a reviewing court may not rely on its own, or an employer's, sense of what is "normal," ante, at 999, as a substitute for a neutral assessment of the evidence presented. 87-1387; Miles v. M.N.C. 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. U.S., at 430 Bruce W. McGee argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent. What are examples of facially neutral practices? ] See Texas Dept. U.S. 977, 996] 2000e-2(j). Cf. v. United States, The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 guaranteed the right to vote to men of all races, including former slaves. See, e. g., Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, Further, the court thought that the intelligence test, on which African Americans tended not to perform as well as whites, did not bear a demonstrable relationship to any of the jobs for which it was used. Indeed, to the extent an employer's "normal" practices serve to perpetuate a racially disparate status quo, they clearly violate Title VII unless they can be shown to be necessary, in addition to being "normal." employee fared under this hypothetical selection system is whether the employee was riffed. , and n. 13 (hiring and promotion practices can be validated in "any one of several ways"). Initially, this resulted in high voter turnout among African-Americans in the South. U.S. 977, 1005] A disparate-impact claim, in contrast, focuses on the effect of the employment practice. Dothard v. Rawlinson, In certain cases, facially neutral employment practices that have significant adverse effects on protected groups have been held to violate the Act without proof 411 The Bank, which has about 80 employees, had not developed precise and formal criteria for evaluating candidates for the positions for which Watson unsuccessfully applied. , n. 15 (1977) (in disparate-treatment challenge "[p]roof of discriminatory motive is critical"). 401 ] The American Psychological Association, co-author of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (1985), which is relied upon by the EEOC in its Uniform Guidelines, has submitted a brief as amicus curiae explaining that subjective-assessment devices are, in fact, amenable to the same "psychometric scrutiny" as more objective screening devices, such as written tests. 411 The Griggs Court found that these policies, which involved the use of general aptitude tests and a high school diploma U.S., at 432 is a term that refers to certain situations in which an employer may legally require that employees be of a certain sex, religion, or age. In both circumstances, the employer's practices may be said to "adversely affect [an individual's] status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." U.S. 299, 308 433 A third decision, confirming that the Fair Housing Act prohibits not only policies that intend to perpetuate racial . U.S. 299, 311 U.S. 248 See Teamsters v. United States, Factors such as the cost or other burdens of proposed alternative selection devices are relevant in determining whether they would be equally as effective as the challenged practice in serving the employer's legitimate business goals. ] Faced with the task of applying these general statements to particular cases, the lower courts have sometimes looked for more specific direction in the EEOC's Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, 29 CFR pt. U.S. 424 Perhaps the most obvious examples of such functional equivalence have been found where facially neutral job requirements necessarily operated to perpetuate the effects of intentional discrimination that occurred before Title VII was enacted. U.S., at 425 denied, In that context, it is enough for an employer "to articulate some legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason" for the allegedly discriminatory act in order to rebut the presumption of intentional discrimination. Congress has specifically provided that employers are not required to avoid "disparate impact" as such: We do not believe that disparate impact theory need have any chilling effect on legitimate business practices. (1977)); Guardians Association of New York City Police Dept. Cf. [487 their usefulness depends on all of the surrounding facts and circumstances." Close include a disparate-impact standard of liability. ante, at 994 (plaintiff is responsible "for isolating and identifying the specific employment practices that are allegedly responsible for any observed statistical disparities"). ] 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. a variety of methods are available for establishing the link between these selection processes and job performance, just as they are for objective-selection devices. %PDF-1.4 % Such a rule would encourage employers to abandon attempts to construct selection mechanisms subject to neutral application for the shelter of vague generalities. McDonnell Douglas, Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. PLF hopes that the Supreme Court takes that issue up again, and finally has the chance to rule on whether the Fair Housing Act allows disparate impact claims. (1971), this Court held that a plaintiff need not necessarily prove intentional discrimination in order to establish that an employer has violated 703. 111 0 obj <> endobj necessity for an employment practice, which left the assessment of a list of general character qualities to the hirer's discretion, than for a practice consisting of the evaluation of various objective criteria carefully tailored to measure relevant job qualifications. U.S. 440 . Cf. 793, 805-811 (1978), and it has not provided more than a rule of thumb 422 0000000576 00000 n - Establish a causal connection between the policy and the disparity. %%EOF U.S. 977, 997] The term itself, however, goes a long way toward establishing the limits of the defense: To be justified as a business necessity an employment criterion must bear more than an indirect or minimal relationship to job performance. , n. 5 (1981) (recognizing, in the context of articulating allocation of burdens applicable to disparate-treatment claims, that "the factual issues, and therefore the character of the evidence presented, differ when the plaintiff claims that a facially neutral employment policy has a discriminatory impact on protected classes"); United States Postal Service Bd. In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the court ruled that a law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968 aimed at preventing discrimination in buying, renting, and financing homes applies even when the. II. TermsPrivacyDisclaimerCookiesDo Not Sell My Information, Begin typing to search, use arrow keys to navigate, use enter to select, Stay up-to-date with FindLaw's newsletter for legal professionals. v. United States, But again the plurality misses a key distinction: An employer accused of discriminating intentionally need only dispute that it had any such intent - which it can do by offering any legitimate, nondiscriminatory justification. 450 We have not limited this principle to cases in which the challenged practice served to perpetuate the effects of pre-Act intentional discrimination. Statistical evidence is crucial throughout disparate impact's three-stage analysis: during (1) the plaintiff's prima facie demonstration of a policy's disparate impact; (2) the defendant's job-related business necessity defense of the discriminatory policy; and (3) the plaintiff's demonstration of an alternative policy without the same discriminatory impact. 189, 205-207 (1983); Shoben, Differential Pass-Fail Rates in Employment Testing: Statistical Proof Under Title VII, 91 Harv. U.S., at 425 Answer the following questions about the diatonic modes. We granted certiorari to resolve the conflict. The following cases are disparate treatment examples in the categories of Age, Sex and Race Discrimination. 485 The Court's decision is, needless to say, disappointing. (1987), cert denied, No. Unfortunately, however, the act failed to clarify how the existence of disparate impacts was to be established, under what circumstances an employers practice counted as a business necessity, and what plaintiffs needed to show regarding alternative practices with lesser disparate impacts. ] Both concurrences agree that we should, for the first time, approve the use of disparate impact analysis in evaluating subjective selection practices. U.S. 977, 988] Duke Power Co. established the disparate impact theory of Title VII cases and Congress codified it in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. . Moreover, an employer that 0000008679 00000 n 0000000851 00000 n If petitioner can successfully establish that respondent's hiring practice disfavored black applicants to a significant extent, the bald assertion that a purely discretionary selection process allowed respondent to discover the best people for the job, without any further evidentiary support, would not be enough to prove job-relatedness. [487 Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. 2000e-2, provides: In Griggs v. Duke Power Co., It is self-evident that many jobs, for example those involving managerial responsibilities, require personal qualities that have never been considered amenable to standardized testing. Six months after Brown was promoted, his performance was evaluated as only "close to being `competent.'" processes, pending, No. 457 been framed in terms of any rigid mathematical formula, have consistently stressed that statistical disparities must be sufficiently substantial that they raise such an inference of causation. In contrast, we have consistently used conventional disparate treatment theory, in which proof of intent to discriminate is required, to review hiring and promotion decisions that were based on the exercise of personal judgment or the application of inherently subjective criteria. 3 3 The Court held that disparate-impact claims are cognizable under FHA 3604(a) and 3605(a) (referred to in the Court's opinion as 804(a) and 805(a), which were the original section numbers in the 1968 FHA). 9. 401 (1973), and Texas Dept. Disparate impact in United States labor law refers to practices in employment, housing, and other areas that adversely affect one group of people of a protected characteristic more than another, even though rules applied by employers or landlords are formally neutral. 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. 4, pp. 401 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 , n. 8. 401 Especially in cases where an employer combines subjective criteria with the use of more rigid standardized rules or tests, the plaintiff is in our view responsible for isolating and identifying the specific employment practices that are allegedly responsible for any observed statistical disparities. [487 Footnote 2 The Facts of the Case The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. (ICP), a Texas-based nonprofit corporation that assists low-income families in obtaining affordable housing, brought a disparate-impact claim under the Fair Housing Act against the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (Department). Prior to 1965 African Americans could be hired only by the lowest-paying department of the company and were not allowed to transfer out. All the supervisors involved in denying Watson the four promotions at issue were white. 433 The first case that significantly limited the disparate impact theory was Washington v. Davis (1976), in which the Supreme Court held that the theory could not be used to establish a constitutional claimin this case, that an employment practice by the District of Columbia violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendmentunless plaintiffs could show that the facially neutral standards were adopted with discriminatory intent. The majority was concerned primarily with preserving what it perceives to be a critical tool in "moving the Nation toward a more integrated society" . Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, ] 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. 3. And, in doing so, it highlighted how extraordinary a contrary decision from the Court would be. 455 798 F.2d 791 (1986). 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. Unlike a [487 U.S. 977, 980] disparate-treatment claim of intentional discrimination, which a prima facie case establishes only by inference, the disparate impact caused by an employment practice is directly established by the numerical disparity shown by the prima facie case, and the employer can avoid liability only if it can prove that the . (1977) (height and weight requirements); New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer, Our formulations, which have never 2H^ ]K\ ApO.f)}.ORbS1\@65(^N|T04p11a{t.s35fC NF}4! %:diI.Fm3c%w( cX'a{h9(G03> For example, in the case of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by any institution receiving as little as one dollar in federal funds, the U.S. Department of Education promulgated Title VI regulations that prohibit criteria or methods of administration which have the effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination because of their race, color, or national origin. 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