M.D. v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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1. “McReynolds v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 672 F.3d 482 (7th Cir.2012) cert. denied, 568 U.S. 887 , 133 S.Ct. 338 , 184 L.Ed.2d 157 (2012), involved a somewhat complicated connection between the defendant’s policies and the alleged harm. Plaintiffs had filed a Title VII class action on the basis of two company-wide policies: a “teaming” policy that permitted brokers in the same office to form their own teams, and an “account distribution” policy that transferred accounts from brokers who left the company largely on the basis of past performance. The plaintiffs alleged that these policies exacerbated racial discrimination. The theory of the claim was that, all else being equal, brokers tend to form teams of like members, so teams tend to be formed along racial lines. Members of a racial minority may therefore find it harder to find teams at all, or at least good ones, and are thus denied the advantages of the teaming policy. The account distribution policy is alleged to aggravate this disadvantage; brokers on good teams do better in the competition for account distributions, leading to a “vicious cycle” for minority (in this case African-American) brokers. McReynolds, 672 F.3d at 488-90 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dockery v. Fischer

2. “On August 11, 2011 there were 8,174 children in the Licensed Foster Care Subclass.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. M. D. ex rel. Stukenberg v. Abbott