Rocker v. Huntington

How courts have described this case

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• noting that although subjective criteria are not wrongful per se, they do “provide[ ] an opportunity for unlawful discrimination”
• finding that reliance on interviews for a supervisory position was not a pretext for discrimination although it may require subjective judgment
• finding that reliance on interviews for supervisory position, while requiring subjective judgments, was not pretext for discrimination
• applying disparate impact claim to subjective practices and concluding, “[sjubjective hiring and promotion decisions ... may not go unexplained if there is a significant disproportionate non-selection of members of a group over an extended period.”
• “the standards from which the selection committee made a choice were written down and in that sense were objective”
• wherein the court, in considering an affirmative action program, found no legal requirement that an employer give preferential treatment to qualified minorities or women

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).