What did the Supreme Court rule in the firefighter decision?
Supreme Court rules for white firefighters in promotions Updated 5h 34m ago By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The city of New Haven wrongly discarded the results of a firefighter promotion test after whites outscored blacks and Hispanics, a bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision likely to impact job practices nationwide. The 5-4 decision controlled by the court’s conservative bloc raises the bar for employers that try to change job tests or other seemingly neutral criteria after they discover the tests disproportionately screen out racial minorities. The decision, which reverses a lower court decision that had been joined by current Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, elicited an impassioned dissent from the bench from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In the majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court said New Haven violated a provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bars discriminatory treatment in hiring and promotion. Ne
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. Sources: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/06/29/DI2009062901937.
