Felix Waisome v. The Port Authority Of New York And New Jersey

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• noting that courts should “consider[ ] not only statistics but also all the surrounding facts and circumstances”
• population was all black candidates who sought promotion compared to the composition of those candidates actually promoted
• a finding of one in 384 by chance that the result is random is \generally highly probative of discriminatory treatment.\
• a finding of one in 384 by chance that the result is random is “generally highly probative of discriminatory treatment.”
• plaintiff must “identify the specific employment practice he is alleging and then show that practice excluded him or her, as a member of a protected group, from a job or promotion opportunity”
• “[W]here statistics are based on a relatively small number of occurrences, the presence or absence of statistical significance is not a reliable indicator of disparate impact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).