Nash v. Consolidated City of Jacksonville

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This case involves step two of the familiar three-step analysis for Title VII disparate impact claims. The district court found first that appellant had satisfied his initial burden of identifying an employment practice with a discriminatory impact. The district court next found that appellee had avoided a finding of discrimination against it by satisfying its burden of demonstrating that the practice was a business necessity and had a manifest relationship to the employment in question. Because we hold that appellee has not satisfied this burden, we reverse without…