Riley D. POUNCY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellee

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• rejecting an employee's promotion claim because the employee did not possess the initiative or the ability to communicate with and train his co-workers
• rejecting an employee’s promotion claim because the employee did not possess the initiative or the ability to communicate with and train his coworkers
• explaining why “disparate impact analysis may be used to challenge aptitude and intel- ligence tests” but not “entire range of employment prac- tices”
• refusing to infer that an employer discriminated against black employees in awarding promotions simply because the plaintiffs demonstrated that the percentage of black employees promoted was \far less\ than the percentage in black employees in the employer's work force
• refusing to infer that an employer discriminated against black employees in awarding promotions simply because the plaintiffs demonstrated that the percentage of black employees promoted was “far less” than the percentage in black employees in the employer’s work force
• “The disparate impact model requires proof of a causal connection between a challenged employment practice and the composition of the work force”

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