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“Uh, Eric, don’t you mean the superior candidate?”
You’d think I would, but I’m reading what the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in this recent opinion.
The plaintiff, a black woman, applied for a job. The company conducted two rounds of interviews, with separate panels in each round, to consider five candidates, including the plaintiff. Each candidate was asked the same questions, and each panel agreed on the same top candidate.
The plaintiff did not get the job. Instead, it went to the consensus choice: a white woman. The plaintiff then claimed sex (?) and race discrimination.
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