Legal Opinion
Harris v. Civil Service Commission
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 5, 1998No. A078480PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
LAMBDEN, J.
This action is based on a claimed violation of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.) (the FEHA) and poses the question, “Can a member of one protected minority group force her employer, through administrative mandate (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5), to use promotional tests which would benefit her but have a severe adverse impact on another protected minority group?” Our analysis of the law lead us to conclude she has no right to claim any benefit from such manifest adverse impact on the grounds that she may have her own claim of…
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