Burrillville Sch. Committee v. Rhode Island Dept., Children, 96-1774 (1996)

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• holding that age discrimination disparate impact claims are not limited to 40-and-older 7 comparisons, and can be based on subgroups
• “Being similarly situated means that one is subjected to some common employer practice that, if proved, would help demonstrate a violation of the FLSA.”
• finding an officer failed to intervene when he did not prevent the beating of a prisoner when he callously refused to permit the prisoner to pass safely though an administrative door so he could escape other inmates pursuing him
• “The question of whether a study’s results were properly calculated or interpreted ordinarily goes to the weight of the evidence, not to its admissibil- ity.”
• “The question of whether a study’s results were properly calculated or inter- preted ordinarily goes to the weight of the evidence, not to its admissibility.”
• “When a defendant proffers a RFOA, the plaintiff can rebut it by showing that the factor relied upon is unreasonable, not by identifying twenty other practices that would have been reasonable instead.”

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