United States Ninth Circuit

State teacher certification test is subject to Title VII regulation, but because it tested basic reading, writing and mathematical skills, it was sufficiently related to teaching skills to withstand a disparate impact claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/20/2000
• Decided 10/30/2000
• Published 10/30/2000

Judges

• Before:  HUG, Chief Judge, and SCHROEDER, REINHARDT, O'SCANNLAIN, FERNANDEZ, RYMER, KLEINFELD, TASHIMA, THOMAS, GRABER, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stewart Weinberg, Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Oakland, California; Paul J. Dostart, Dostart Clapp Sterrett & Coveney, LLP, San Diego, California; Martin Bienstock, Assistant Attorney General, New York, New York; Peter Roos, San Francisco, California; and Gregory B. Friel and Jennifer Levin, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the amici.


• For Appellees:
  
• John T. Affeldt,Public Advocates, Inc., San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants/appellees., R. Lawrence Ashe, Jr., and Eric J. Taylor, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia;  and William Lockyer, Attorney General, and Stephanie Wald, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees/appellants.