The U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Wards Cove Packing v. Atonia, has significantly changed the ground rules in many future work-related discrimination suits.
The case before the court involved charges by a group of Eskimo and Asian cannery workers who argued that they had been channeled into low-paying jobs while white workers got the more desirable positions. The case eventually reached the highest court, where the judges ruled this week that a lower court had misused statistical evidence.
In determining whether unlawful discrimination had occurred, Justice Byron White, who wrote the court's 5-4 majority opinion, said it is not enough simply to compare …
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