Pleissner v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a sufficient prima facie case of discrimination was present to justify remedial racial preferences when statistical evidence showed a “gross” and “wide” disparity
• “[T] he party defending the plan bears the burden of producing evidence that the plan is constitutional.”
• “It is settled that appropriate statistical evidence setting forth a prima facie case of discrimination is sufficient to provide a strong basis in evidence to support a public employer[’s] affirmative action plan.”
• “It is settled that appropriate statistical evidence setting forth a pH- ma facie case of discrimination is sufficient to provide a strong basis in evidence to support a public employer[’s] affirmative action plan.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).