Supreme Court backs New Haven Firefighters

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Well, as far as I understand it, all that the decision did today was say that it wasn't acceptable to, out of fear of a disparate outcome lawsuit, take an action that had a disparate outcome on a different racial group.

That's a pretty good nutshell based on my quick look at the opinion.

[VandalSquirrel]

Something I haven't been able to find yet (I haven't looked very hard) is how it was certain or positive people were white or not. I thought that disclosing that information was optional, not required. I guess that every test taker could share that information, but that it was self disclosed if it was.

How did they know for certain if the test takers were white or not?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Well, as far as I understand it, all that the decision did today was say that it wasn't acceptable to, out of fear of a disparate outcome lawsuit, take an action that had a disparate outcome on a different racial group.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

That's a pretty good nutshell based on my quick look at the opinion.

That's my understanding as well, based on my very quick reding of summaries of the opinion. This has been pretty big news in CT, so I'm going to try to read the opinion a bit further.

This has been a pretty big story in CT, and New Haven has had its share of problems over the years, so there will probably be quite a bit of talk about it locally.

There's probably also going to be a whole bunch out there as well about the fact that they're overruling Sotomayor (she was in the majority in the court of appeals decision).