Legal Opinion
Allen v. Seidman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 1989No. Nos. 88-1811, 88-2893PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal, together with the appeal in Evans v. City of Evanston, 881 F.2d 382 (7th Cir.1989), argued the same day and also decided today, are the first disparate-impact appeals heard and decided by this court in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, — U.S. -, 109 S.Ct. 2115, 104 L.Ed.2d 733 (1989), which modified the ground rules that most lower courts had followed in disparate-impact cases. Before Wards Cove it was generally believed that if the plaintiff in a Title VII case showed by a reasonable statistical test that a…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & TrustSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Wards Cove Packing Co. v. AtonioSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Cooper v. Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Beard v. Whitley County REMCCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
- Glenn E. Tagatz v. Marquette UniversityCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by55 opinions
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- Ampat/midwest, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Illinois Tool Works Inc., Cross-Appellant, and Triangle Fastener Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
- Carmelo Melendez v. Illinois Bell Telephone CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
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