Smith v. City of Jackson

Smith v. City of Jackson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 3, 2004 Decided March 30, 2005
Full case name	Azel P. Smith, et al., Petitioners v. City of Jackson, Mississippi, et al.
Docket no.	03-1160
Citations	544 U.S. 228 (more)
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens (Parts I, II, IV), joined by Scalia, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Plurality	Stevens (Part III), joined by Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Concurrence	Scalia (in part and judgment)
Concurrence	O'Connor (in judgment), joined by Kennedy, Thomas
Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

Smith v. City of Jackson, 544 U.S. 228 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 30, 2005. It concerned the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) and the disparate impact theory. The Court held that although the theory of disparate impact set forth in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971) is also applicable under the ADEA, the ADEA is narrower as it permits “otherwise prohibited” actions “where the differentiation is based on reasonable factors other than age.”^[1][2][3]