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164372P.pdf 08/29/2018 Cara Williams v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-4372
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Title VII. This opinion is issued by Chief Judge Smith and
Judge Colloton pursuant to 8th Cir. R. 47E. In this action alleging
defendant's policy of summarily terminating or withdrawing offers of
employment to any individual disqualified from working in an FDIC-insured
institution under 12 U.S.C. Sec. 1829(a)(1)(A) discriminated against them
on the basis of their race, the district court did not err in granting
summary judgment to defendant as it had established a business necessity
defense; plaintiffs failed to produce sufficient evidence to show that the
alternative business practices they suggested defendant should have
adopted would have reduced the disparate impact on people of color.