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Ideologically-divided 5-4 Supreme Court reverses New Haven firefighters case.

Matthew Yglesias found this 6/29/2009 on thinkprogress.org

For 25 years, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has given employers broad discretion to reconsider a promotion test whose results favor one race over another. Judge Sonia Sotomayor followed this binding precedent when she rejected several firefighters’ claim of ...