Court Opinion

ID: 9492023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:30:18.25943+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:04.218872
License: Public Domain

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I join the panel’s opinion in full. I write separately only to note that, in appropriate circumstances, evidence of discrimination against one group of people can support an inference of discrimination against another group. For example, if statistical or other evidence indicated that an employer discriminated against Asian-Americans, Asians, Chícanos, and African-Americans, it might be reasonable to deem that evidence relevant to a claim that the same employer had discriminated against a Native American or a Nigerian. This would especially be so if the available data were insufficient to establish a pattern of behavior toward the plaintiffs class specifically, as might be the case if the plaintiff had been the only Native American or Nigerian in the defendant’s employ. Because nothing in the panel’s opinion precludes the use of the statistical evidence in such a case, I concur.