Opinion ID: 401058
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Preliminary Evidentiary Issues

Text: 26 During the trial, the court admitted several summaries prepared by Chrysler of the hiring and application activity at Chrysler. Each of these summaries was, to some extent, based on information contained in the original applications and applicant log. The original applications and the applicant log were also independently admitted. The appellant objects to the manner in which the summaries were prepared, and to the incompleteness of some of the applications and the applicant log. The appellant's objections are not persuasive. Because the underlying applications and log were admitted, admission of the exhibits was not necessary to sustain the court's findings. To the extent that the appellant objects to the incompleteness of these applications and the applicant log, this data was the only primary data available on the applicants and is the data upon which the appellant also relied in part in making her analyses. Neither the absence of evidence on the race of applicants until April, 1971, nor the absence of evidence of the race of 899 applicants on June 9, 1973, nor the absence of evidence of the exact date of hire for the applicants render the sample upon which the court's findings were based so unrepresentative or unreliable as to warrant reversal of the court's findings. See, e.g., Jones v. New York City Human Resources Administration, 528 F.2d 696 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 825, 97 S.Ct. 80, 50 L.Ed.2d 88 (1976). 27 The appellant also objects to the admission of data from Chrysler beyond 1973 because the suit was filed in 1974. Data after 1973 represented only a minor portion of the voluminous evidence presented in the trial. Further, as demonstrated in our analysis of the court's ultimate finding, even excluding all data beyond 1973, the appellant's statistical showing failed to demonstrate a significant or substantial disparate impact. 28