The Lewisburg Fire Department advertisement advertises for individuals to be a part of its next academy class.The ad states that applicants must be at least 5'8",and must be capable of carrying at least 100 lbs up a series of 6 steps.The Lewisburg Fire Department will not have any Title VII gender discrimination issues since neither criteria is gender related.

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In the Dothard case, for the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court was faced with whether Title VII's gender discrimination provision applied to the seemingly neutral criteria of height and weight restrictions, which had long been an accepted basis for screening applicants for certain types of jobs such as prison guards, police officers, and firefighters, even though there was little or no legitimate reason for the criteria. The Court decided that Title VII did, in fact, apply to such facially neutral policies when they screened out women (later cases extended this standard to shorter and slighter ethnicities as well) at an unacceptable rate and were not shown to be directly correlated to ability to do the job.

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