Black NTT Applicants Need More Than U.S. Crime Data to Show Bias

Population-based statistics showing Black people are arrested and incarcerated at higher rates than those who are White aren’t enough to state a race bias case against NTT Data Inc. for rejecting Black job seekers after criminal record checks, a split Second Circuit ruled Monday.

Disparate impact or inadvertent discrimination of the type George Mandala and Charles Bennett alleged on behalf of a proposed class are typically founded on statistical analyses, the court said.

“But not just any statistical assessment will do,” the 2-1 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.

The numbers Mandala and Barnett relied on showed ...