The city of New London, Connecticut, has won a lawsuit over a discrimination claim filed by an applicant to the police force who wasn’t hired because he scored too high on an intelligence test.
As a matter of law, I think this is right. Smart people are not a protected class under discrimination law. On the other hand, it seems indefensible as public policy. Of course this is the same city that won the right to use imminent domain to condemn a neighborhood in order to turn it into a garbage dump, so stupidity must reign supreme there.
However, in a related item, the EEOC has ruled that employers may not require a high-school diploma without showing a business necessity. So it seems that (according to the Obama administration) uneducated people are a protected class.
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