Mawn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “[A]t the hearing below certain members of the Commission exhibited an unseemly truculence and improper impatience with the appellant’s counsel’s efforts to present his case. We are fully aware of the Commission’s burdensome caseload and of the undesirability of repetitious questioning. However, fundamental fairness requires that counsel for employes contending that they have been the subjects of discrimination, an activity always difficult to prove, should be given wide latitude in cross-examination. Since it is not to be expected that employers will admit to unlawful bias, cases of this kind must more often than not rest on inferences drawn from acts and the credibility of the explanations assertedly justifying them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lynch v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

2. “No officer or employee of the Commonwealth shall discriminate against any person in . . . promotion . . . because of . . . non-merit factor®.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lynch v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare