and who passed the company's general aptitude test, its selection system could nonetheless have been considered "subjective" if it also included brief interviews with the candidates. 7 Washington v. Davis, In Pacific Shores . [ 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. 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. We granted certiorari to resolve the conflict. [487 7. [487 , n. 14; Teamsters, supra, at 335-336, n. 15. U.S. 977, 1002] [487 Petitioner Clara Watson, who is black, was hired by respondent Fort Worth Bank and Trust (the Bank) as a proof operator in August 1973. Close include a disparate-impact standard of liability. 422 Neither the District Court nor the Court of Appeals has evaluated the statistical evidence to determine whether petitioner professional services or personal counseling. 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. What can the plaintiff show, if the defendant meets his/her burden? 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.. U.S. 977, 985] 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." 440 This case requires us to decide what evidentiary standards should be applied under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. The requirement for disparate impact claims is the plaintiff "must at least set forth enough factual allegations to plausible support each of the basic elements of a disparate impact claim." The Circuit cites Adams v. City of Indianapolis, 742 F.3d 720 (7th Cir. denied sub nom. 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. by Deborah A. Ellis, Isabelle Katz Pinzler, and Joan E. Bertin; for the American Psychological Association by Donald N. Bersoff; for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by John Townsend Rich, Conrad K. Harper, Stuart J. Each of our subsequent decisions, however, like Griggs itself, involved standardized employment tests or criteria. U.S., at 331 Cf. 87-1388, The majority concluded that there was no abuse of discretion in the District Court's class decertification decisions. 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. The challenges are derived from three limitations on disparate- impact liability highlighted in Inclusive Communities, all drawn from pre-existing disparate-impact jurisprudence. The majority was concerned primarily with preserving what it perceives to be a critical tool in "moving the Nation toward a more integrated society" . , n. 31. . All rights reserved. In a disappointing 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court held today that the Federal Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, encompasses claims for disparate impact. 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. (1978) (hiring decisions based on personal knowledge of candidates and recommendations); Texas Dept. 135 S. Ct. at 2518. . 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. Such remarks may not prove discriminatory intent, but they do suggest a lingering form of the problem that Title VII was enacted to combat. [487 Ante, at 998. Some clarity was subsequently provided by the Supreme Courts decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. (2015), which endorsed an interpretation of the Fair Housing Act that had permitted disparate-impact challenges to allegedly discriminatory housing policies or practices but also articulated new limits on the scope of such actions, including that housing authorities and private developers [must be given] leeway to state and explain the valid interest served by their policies and that a disparate-impact claim that relies on a statistical disparity must fail if the plaintiff cannot point to a defendants policy or policies causing that disparity.. The judiciary has applied the theory of disparate impact beyond Title VII to a variety of other federal nondiscrimination statute titles and laws. . Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964whose Title VII prohibited (among other things) discrimination on the basis of race by employers involved in interstate commercethe company officially abandoned this restriction and instituted the high-school-diploma and intelligence-test requirements for transfers. 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, Other kinds of deficiencies in facially plausible statistical evidence may emerge from the facts of particular cases. Cf. -256 (1981), than it does to those the Court has established for disparate-impact claims. [487 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. 0000000576 00000 n -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, If the ruling is upheld, a lawyer for the National Federation of the Blind, which joined the case, said . A third decision, confirming that the Fair Housing Act prohibits not only policies that intend to perpetuate racial . Disparate impact discrimination refers to policies (often employment policies) that have an unintentional and adverse effect on members of a protected class. Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters, 401 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. The term "health disparities" is often defined as "a difference in which disadvantaged social groups such as the poor, racial/ethnic minorities, women and other groups who have persistently experienced social disadvantage or discrimination systematically experience worse health or greater health risks than more advantaged social groups." [2] U.S. 977, 1001] 0000001022 00000 n 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. that discrimination against a protected group has been caused by a specific employment practice remains with the plaintiff at all times." This enforcement standard has been criticized on technical grounds, see, e. g., Boardman & Vining, The Role of Probative Statistics in Employment Discrimination Cases, 46 Law & Contemp. requirement, were not demonstrably related to the jobs for which they were used. -432. L. Rev. [ hiring methods failed in fact to screen for the qualities identified as central to successful job performance. (1981). U.S. 989 (1988), cert. The theory of disparate impact arose from the Supreme Courts landmark decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971), a case presenting a challenge to a power companys requirement that employees pass an intelligence test and obtain a high-school diploma to transfer out of its lowest-paying department. v. Civil Service Comm'n of New York, 630 F.2d 79, 86, and n. 4 (CA2 1980) (same), cert. The oral argument, in sum, made clear that Congress intended to prohibit unjustified disparate impact. U.S. 977, 984] 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." ("[P]ractices, procedures, or tests neutral on their face, and even neutral in terms of intent, cannot be maintained if they operate to `freeze' the [discriminatory] status quo"). The theory of disparate impact arose from the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971), a case presenting a challenge to a power company's requirement that employees pass an intelligence test and obtain a high-school diploma to transfer out of its lowest-paying department. Id., at 85. post, at 1000-1001, 1005-1006 (BLACKMUN, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). . %PDF-1.4 % Whether the employer's decision resulted from its ostensi-bly neutral criteria (the contention in a disparate impact case) 11. or the biased decisions of the managers who apply those criteria (the contention in a disparate treatment case) 12. thus . U.S. 440 Footnote 10 (1973), the Court explained that a plaintiff could meet his burden of establishing a prima facie case of racial discrimination by showing: [ 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. The majority insists that disparate-impact claims are consistent with the FHA's central purpose to eradicate discriminatory practices within a sector of our Nation's economy. (citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted). 2 401 Accordingly, the action was dismissed. When the U.S. Supreme Court first recognized the theory, it was hailed as a breakthrough for civil rights. 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. Disparate-impact analysis also has been incorporated into regulations issued by federal agencies to implement Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a sister statute of Title VI, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any program or activity at educational institutions that receive federal funds. Courts have recognized that the results of studies, see Davis v. Dallas, 777 F.2d 205, 218-219 (CA5 1985) (nationwide studies and reports showing job-relatedness of college-degree requirement), cert. U.S. 977, 1005] 0000002616 00000 n 457 She alleged that the Bank had unlawfully discriminated against blacks in hiring, compensation, initial placement, promotions, terminations, and other terms and conditions of employment. U.S., at 246 0000002895 00000 n [ 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. See 29 CFR 1607.6(B)(1) and (2) (1987) (where selection procedure with disparate impact cannot be formally validated, employer can "justify continued use of the procedure in accord with Federal law"). Cf. U.S. 977, 1008] McDonnell Douglas, 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. 1 U.S., at 431 See Sheet Metal Workers v. EEOC, See also id., at 338-339 (REHNQUIST, J., concurring in result and concurring in part) ("If the defendants in a Title VII suit believe there to be any reason to discredit plaintiffs' statistics that does not appear on their face, the opportunity to challenge them is available to the defendants just as in any other lawsuit. documents the spillover effects of the politics of disparate impact in cases challenging new . Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. 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." Rather, the necessary premise of the disparate impact approach is that some employment practices, adopted without a deliberately discriminatory motive, may in operation be functionally equivalent to intentional discrimination. 42 U.S.C. The plaintiff must begin by identifying the specific employment practice that is challenged. -255. - show that there is a disparity through stats, anecdotal evidence, and direct evidence. v. United States, 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. U.S. 1004 The court decided that the disparate impact was justifiable, because strength and size constituted bona fide occupational requirements for a job that involved maintaining order in prisons. 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. [487 Are compensatory and punitive damages available in disparate impact cases? Another fourteen challenged policies or regulations on the basis of disparate impact against persons with disabilities.233 Although not all disparate impact claims U.S. 977, 990] Art Brender argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. Cf. 460 Footnote 5 After exhausting her administrative remedies, petitioner filed suit in Federal District Court, alleging, inter alia, that respondent's promotion policies had unlawfully discriminated against blacks generally and her personally in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. U.S. 977, 983]. Disparate Impact. (1979) (rule against employing drug addicts); Connecticut v. Teal, allow for women to be excluded from firefighters' positions. U.S. 989 The following cases are disparate treatment examples in the categories of Age, Sex and Race Discrimination. employment procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as `built-in headwinds' for minority groups." 431 Updates? allow for men to be excluded from day care workers' positions. 452 The FHA, which followed up the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawed housing discrimination based on race or certain other protected characteristics. [487 However one might distinguish "subjective" from "objective" criteria, it is apparent that selection systems that combine both types would generally have to be considered subjective in nature. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Courts have also referred to the "standard deviation" analysis sometimes used in jury-selection cases. As to the disparate impact claim, the court first described the three-part test governing disparate impact claims under Supreme Court precedent. of Governors v. Aikens, supra, at 713, n. 1; McDonnell Douglas, include such things as customers' preference for employees of a certain race. 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. App. U.S., at 578 253, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Footnote * 475 As to petitioner's individual claim, the court held that she had not met her burden of proof under the discriminatory treatment evidentiary standard and, for this and other reasons, dismissed the action. 438 [487 111 14 433 [487 Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the United States by Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Reynolds, Deputy Solicitor General Ayer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Clegg, David K. Flynn, and Charles A. Shanor; for the Equal Employment Advisory Council by Robert E. Williams, Douglas S. McDowell, Edward E. Potter, and Garen E. Dodge; for the American Society for Personnel Administration et al. contradicted by our cases. Watson argued that the District Court had erred in failing to apply "disparate impact" analysis to her claims of discrimination in promotion. 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 The challenges are derived from three limitations on disparate impact liability highlighted in Inclusive Communities, all drawn from pre-existing disparate impact jurisprudence. 433 426 D.C. 103, 738 F.2d 1249 (1984), cert. At least at this stage of the law's development, we believe that such a case-by-case approach properly reflects our recognition that statistics "come in infinite variety and . of Community Affairs v. Burdine, some courts look at the applications, labor market stats, actual v. anticipated results, and the regression analysis. U.S. 977, 995] See, e. g., Fudge v. Providence Fire Dept., 766 F.2d 650, 656-659 (CA1 1985). . . , or "job relatedness," Albemarle Paper Co., 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. 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.'" (1975) (written aptitude tests); Washington v. Davis, supra (written test of verbal skills); Dothard v. Rawlinson, 3. U.S., at 431 176 A key component for establishing a disparate impact case is demonstrating that there is "a particular employment practice that causes a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national . Six months after Brown was promoted, his performance was evaluated as only "close to being `competent.'" In order to resolve this conflict, we must determine whether the reasons that support the use of disparate impact analysis apply to subjective employment practices, and whether such analysis can be applied in this new context under workable evidentiary standards. U.S., at 426 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. And even where an employer for blacks to have to count." Watson then applied for the vacancy created at the drive-in; a white male was selected for that job. Nevertheless, it bears noting that this statement The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded. endstream endobj 123 0 obj<>/Size 111/Type/XRef>>stream legal precedent for so-called "disparate-impact" lawsuits involving instances of racial discrimination. 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 See Hazelwood School Dist. 3 1979 to 2006). The prima facie case of disparate impact established by a showing of a significant statistical disparity is notably different. U.S. 567, 577 The District Court later decertified this broad class because it concluded, in light of the evidence presented at trial, that there was not a common question of law or fact uniting the groups of applicants and employees. Copyright 2023, Thomson Reuters. 411 1. [487 v. United States, See ante, at 994-997. [487 Definition. 161-162. Yet in Alexander v. Sandoval (2001), the Supreme Court closed the door on disparate-impact suits brought by individuals under Title VI, ruling that although the agencys regulations were valid, no private right of action existed for individuals to enforce them. Furthermore, even if one assumed that any such discrimination can be adequately policed through disparate treatment analysis, the problem of subconscious stereotypes and prejudices would remain. For example, in this case the Bank supervisors were given complete, unguided discretion in evaluating applicants for the promotions in question. 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. Supreme Court recognizes disparate-impact claims under FHA - implications for property insurers . Since the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers have been prohibited from engaging in two forms of discrimination: disparate treatment (e.g., intentional exclusion of a person because of their identity) and disparate impact (e.g., unintentional disadvantage of a protected class via a facially neutral procedure) [ 4 ]. employee fared under this hypothetical selection system is whether the employee was riffed. denied, 401 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. of Community Affairs v. Burdine, ] One of the hiring supervisors testified that she was never given any guidelines or instructions on her hiring and promotion decisions. 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