As everyone knows, when a university hires new faculty, they just stack all their credentials up in a row and whichever one is highest gets the job. Easy peasy.
A lawsuit filed against Northwestern University opened a new front in the legal battle against affirmative action, alleging that its law school hires less-qualified people of color and women over White men for faculty positions in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws.
I vaguely remember reading about one lawsuit from many years ago of the form, "I was denied tenure but this less qualified woman was granted tenure," and discovery unsurprisingly documented that the male candidate was rejected for being an insufferable douchebag that no one liked.
