The City of Austin, Texas settled a discrimination lawsuit against the Fire Department for $850,000. See Austin American Statesman report. The lawsuit had been filed by two white Fire Battalion chiefs who complained that two minority candidates who ranked lower were selected over them for promotion to Assistant Chief. The lawsuit claimed the selections
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Ricci Decision Re-Looks Basic Premises
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Litigation and trial practice
Well, as often happens, the new decision is out but it will take months or longer to understand what it means. The US Supreme Court issued its decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven, Connecticut firefighters case. Workplace profs have observed:
"To say that concern over the possibility of a discriminatory effect…