Legal Opinion
Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 23, 1987No. Nos. 83-4263, 84-3527PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TANG, Circuit Judge:
We grant en banc review in this Title VII race discrimination case to decide two questions. First, we decide the procedure a panel should follow when faced with an irreconcilable conflict between the holdings of controlling prior decisions of this court. Second, we resolve that irreconcilable conflict, by deciding that disparate impact analysis may be applied to subjective employment practices. The district court declined to apply disparate impact analysis on the authority of Heagney v. University of Washington, 642 F.2d 1157 (9th Cir.1981) (practice of hiring without…
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