United States Ninth Circuit

In a class action alleging that the California Highway Patrol's (CHP) promotional process discriminates against non-whites, an internal pool is the appropriate comparative group for determining disparate impact on non-white officers, and defendant's arguments contesting plaintiffs' statistical analyses are rejected.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/23/2002
• Decided 05/31/2002
• Published 05/31/2002

Judges

• Before REINHARDT, KOZINSKI and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joel M. Cohn,Esq., Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants., Della Bahan, Esq., Bahan & Associates, Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.