California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hardy v. Stumpf, 145 Cal.Rptr. 176, 21 Cal.3d 1, 576 P.2d 1342 (Cal. 1978):
Moreover, the record in the present case reveals that before instituting the current physical agility test, defendants required that an applicant for the position of policewoman meet certain height and weight standards and perform only a series of simple physical exercises, not including wall-scaling. * Defendants required male applicants to meet certain height and weight standards and to perform a physical exercise examination which was relatively demanding, but which did not include wall-scaling. In Hardy v. Stumpf (1974) 37 Cal.App.3d 958, 112 Cal.Rptr. 739, the court invalidated the City of Oakland's height and weight requirements for police officers. Defendants consequently replaced the invalidated requirements and both physical exercise examinations with the present agility test, without requiring incumbent employees to pass the new test.
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