Gartner v. California

rejecting cost-cutting rationale for school board policy that restricted teacher hiring to persons with less than five years’ experience | upholding trial court's refusal to grant reinstatement under theory that jury's damage award equal to one-year's salary amounted to finding that teacher subject to unlawful failure to hire under ADEA was deprived of only one year's employment | allowing age discrimination claim based on disparate income shown by statistical evidence | upholding trial court’s refusal to grant reinstatement under theory that jury’s damage award equal to one-year’s salary amounted to finding that teacher subject to unlawful failure to hire under ADEA was deprived of only one year’s employment | school district committed age discrimination by replacing a 55 year old teacher two weeks after she began work | Rehnquist, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari and questioning whether a discriminatory impact claim may be brought under the ADEA | refusal to hire persons with more than five years experience inevitably excludes older teachers | refusal to hire persons with more than five years experience inevitably excludes older teachers | applying disparate impact theory to ADEA age discrimination claims | Rehnquist, J,, dissenting from the denial of certiorari