United States Ninth Circuit

In a disparate impact case alleging gender discrimination, a pool of six candidates of one gender in an overall pool of 38 applicants is too small to produce statistically significant results.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2001
• Decided 01/10/2002
• Published 01/10/2002

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BEEZER, TROTT and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael S. Sorgen and Andrea Adam Brott, Law Offices of Michael S. Sorgen, San Francisco, California;  Kathleen M. Lucas, The Lucas Law Firm, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Pinchas, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellee.