The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, involved a group of 19 white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter who filed suit in 2003 claiming that the city of New Haven, Conn., engaged in racial discrimination when it threw out the results of two promotion tests because none of the city’s black applicants had passed the tests.
The case is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The city threw out the results because it feared potential lawsuits from activist groups if few or no minority candidates were promoted
Federal Judge Janet Bond Arterton rejected the firefighters’ appeal
saying that no racial discrimination had occurred because the city didn’t promote anyone at all
U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sotomayor issued
a one-paragraph judgment that called Arterton’s ruling “thorough, thoughtful, and well reasoned,”
according to dissenting Judge Jose Cabranes, the single-paragraph order
ignored over 1,800 pages of testimony and more than an hour of argument
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