· 12/28/1981
Herbert NANTY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the BARROWS COMPANY, Formerly Barrows Furniture Company, Defendant-Appellee
Citations
- 660 F.2d 1327
How courts have described this case
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- \subjective job criteria present potential for serious abuse and should be reviewed with much skepticism\
- “Subjective job criteria present potential for serious abuse and should be viewed with much skepticism.”
- “Barrows knew nothing about Nanty at the time of the rejection.”
- “In a case involving higher echelon employment, the skills for which are necessarily measured in more subjective terms, the same potential for [discriminatory] abuse exists, but the use of subjec tive criteria is inherently less suspect.”
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Judges: Skelton, Claims, Choy, Reinhardt
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