United States v. Vulcan Soc. Inc.

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• finding that report summarizing the steps of defendant’s job analysis did not satisfy defendant’s burden of proving that it had conducted a suitable analysis
• finding that defendant’s job analysis for a test given to firefighter candidates was inadequate because no effort had been made to explain the relationship between the knowledge, skills, and abilities being tested on the exam and the tasks involved in being a firefighter
• reading level of written test questions “should be below the reading level of material Firefighters may be given to read at the Fire Academy”
• finding that defendant’s job analysis for a test given to firefighter candidates was inadequate because no effort had been made to explain the relationship between the knowledge, skills, and abilities being tested on the exam and the tasks involved in being a firefighter
• describing the use of “job questionnaires” to develop a list of job tasks
• untimely proffered expert opinions “suggest that they were constructed to fill holes in the evidence that the City failed to gather during discovery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).