Pleasants v. Allbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
13 district ·
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Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders · Sweat v. Miller Brewing Co. · Rich v. Martin Marietta Corp. · Sempier v. Johnson & Higgins · Trevino v. Celanese Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The problem of setting a time period for the discovery ordered is a perplexing one because it does not admit of a lapidary solution; life is messy and cannot be divided into neat chronological segments. In a case involving class-wide discrimination, responsible statistical analysis has to be based on enough data to make that analysis meaningful. Understandably, in such cases, courts permit discovery of data over an extensive period of time. E.g., Rich v. Martin Marietta Corp., 522 F.2d 333, 342 (10th Cir.1975). In an individual, disparate treatment case, the courts cannot be as sure handed. On the one hand, the defendant wonders why a plaintiff in such a case is entitled to any information other than the information pertaining to his own case. But that wonderment presupposes the existence of watertight compartments between individual, disparate treatment cases and pattern and practice cases that challenge agency or company-wide policies and practices in terms of the effects on individuals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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