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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • \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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