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· 12/7/1987

Robert Earl Mister, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company

Citations

  • 832 F.2d 1427

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  • noting the \'rule' that findings should be accepted as 'statistically significant' when the observations are more than two standard deviations away from the values\ that would result if there was no discrimination
  • “The employer need not have ‘good’ reasons, and a mistaken business decision 13 is not on that account a ‘pretext.’”

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Judges: Wood, Flaum, Easterbrook

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