· 5/8/1973
Paul SPURLOCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee
Citations
- 475 F.2d 216
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- sustaining job relatedness of college degree requirement on strength of testimony
- \(P)re-employment qualifications which result in discrimination may be valid if they are shown to be job-related.\
- airline pilot qualifications require lesser showing of business necessity because of high degree of job skill required
- where there are human risks involved “in hiring an unqualified applicant,” courts “should proceed with great caution before requiring an employer to lower his pre-employment standards for such a job”
- “[P]re-employment qualifications which result in discrimination may be valid if they are shown to be job-related.”
- college degree and 500 flight hours required for airline pilots
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Judges: Lewis, Doyle, Bratton
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