Judge orders New Haven to promote firefighters

[JonQ]

NEW HAVEN — A U.S. District Court judge, under instruction by the Supreme Court decision, today issued an judgement finding the city violated the civil rights of a group of white firefighters when it threw out two promotional exams in 2004, and ordered the city to promote 14 of them.

The two-page, bare-boned judgement issued late this afternoon was the culmination of five years of litigation that wound all the way to the nation’s highest court — and has been the target of a recent flurry of legal wrangling trying to prevent the promotions from being made.

Judge Janet Bond Arterton, who in 2006 threw out the firefighters’ lawsuit only to have the decision ultimately overturned by the nation’s high court in June, laid out the city’s road map. It left no ambiguity:

The judgement says the city’s Civil Service Commission “shall certify” the results of the contested 2003 promotional examinations for fire lieutenant and captain and “shall certify” promotional lists and then promote 14 members of the so-called New Haven 20.


http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/11/24/news/new_haven/doc4b0c7f632b093927209424.txt

[vadawg]

1. good, always seemed like they were jipped to make some artificial number work...

[imdjh]

2. Hope the promotions are retroactive. But it probably doesn't change the flaw, because the losing ...

..... side won't admit that what it did was wrong.

[paulsby]

3. excellent victory for equal treatment under the law

firefighters just need to be judged by the content of their character... and their test scores.

not the color of their skin

[vadawg]

4. hey man how you doing tonight, you not working

[paulsby]

5. did my last day of transitional duty today

4 days off, then i return to patrol. surgeon gave me clearance, clarence. said he was amazed at how fast i recovered. i told him i was motivated and used every modality in the book to get better.

i am stoked! and after 5 days doing detective work, well... let me just say. blech!

[vadawg]

6. lol, i am on desk work so to speak for the next few days, due to use of force

silly gangbanger didnt tell us he had an unsheathed machete in his pants when we took him to the ground, he got a booboo, so now we are riding desks until IA comes in after the holiday.. :) still i got to eat a shacl load of turkey tonight...

[paulsby]

7. man, i hate machetes

i spent some time in central america, where machete wounds are common. those are some nasty wounds. i'd rather be shot than hacked with a machete.

stay safe.

i mean, you could get a papercut :)

[JonQ]

8. But if you were a minority trapped in a burning building

wouldn't you much prefer a fellow minority coming to your rescue rather than some damned honkey?

[JonQ]

9. And who is unrecing this without leaving a comment?

Lame.