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The Supreme Court's Ricci decision - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 6/29/2009
The Supreme Court's Ricci decision - Glenn Greenwald
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(updated below) In the now famous "white firefighter" affirmative action case -- Ricci v. DeStefano -- the Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 ruling (.pdf), reversed the decision of a unanimous Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel (which included Judge Sonia Sotomayor) and held that the ...
Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0 -- But Bigger Battles Loom
ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com - 6/30/2009
Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0 -- But Bigger Battles Loom
— ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com — The Supreme Court's predictable 5-4 vote to reverse the decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and two federal... appeals court colleagues against 17 white (and one Hispanic) plaintiffs in the now-famous New Haven, Conn., firefighters decision does not by ... (more) Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0 -- But Bigger ...

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scotusblog.com - 6/29/2009
What Ricci says about the Supreme Court’s views of Judge Sotomayor
— scotusblog.com — Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Ricci will inevitably be put under the microscope for what it tells us... about the Justices’ views of how the Second Circuit panel that included Judge Sotomayor handled the case. The Justices themselves were ... (more) What Ricci says about the Supreme Court’s views of Judge ...

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bench.nationalreview.com - 6/29/2009
9-0 Against Sotomayor
— bench.nationalreview.com — In footnote 10 of her dissent, Justice Ginsburg, agreeing with the position that President Obamarsquo;s Department of... Justice took, states:nbsp; ldquo... . . . (more) 9-0 Against Sotomayor

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culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily:  The irony of brown-skinned white supremacists

Comments from Left Field:  Ricci Reversal Only Vindicates Judge Sotomayor

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The irony of brown-skinned white supremacists
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... . Never mind that Sotomayor and all the other judges felt for the firefighters and were sympathetic to their cause (aka, had empathy), yet they still were looking at the facts based on ...

Ricci Reversal Only Vindicates Judge Sotomayor
Comments from Left Field — As Glenn Greenwald put it, in the first of four points about the ruling: In light of today’s ruling, it’s a bit difficult — actually, impossible — for a rational person to argue that Sotomayor’s Ricci decision places her outside the judicial mainstream when: (a) she was affirming the decision of the federal district court judge; (b) she was joined in her decision by the two other Second Circuit judges who, along with her, comprised a unanimous panel; (c) a ...

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Supreme Court Sides with White Firefighters - Opinion
lashawnbarber.com 6/29/2009 — Earlier this year I told you about a case called Ricci v. DeStefano . The fire department in New Haven, Connecticut, threw out the results of a promotions test because no blacks scored high enough to qualify for promotions. In other words, white ...
Supreme Court Overturns J. Sotomayor in Ricci v. DeStefano
minx.cc 6/29/2009 — The Court holds 5-4 that New Haven's decision to discard the test results because too few non-Hispanic minorities passed violated the Civil Rights Act. Opinion is here (PDF). Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the Chief Justice and Justices...
In covering Ricci , media should not promote "extraordinary rebuke" myth
mediamatters.org 6/29/2009 — As Media Matters for America has noted , in a May 27 editorial , The Washington Times stated that if the Supreme Court were to reverse Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano , "It would be an extraordinary ...
GMA host falsely reports that Ricci plaintiffs were "passed over for promotion in favor of less-qualified black candidates"
mediamatters.org 6/30/2009 — On the June 29 edition of ABC's Good Morning America , ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff falsely reported that Ricci v. DeStefano was about firefighters "passed over for promotion in favor of less qualified black candidates." In fact, no one was ...
Doug Kendall: Grasping at Straws: Sotomayor, Ricci, and The Lunatic Fringe
huffingtonpost.com 6/30/2009 — The far right's attack on Judge Sonia Sotomayor is not going well, and desparation has clearly set in. In an unbelievable post today, Wendy Long of the ironically-named Judicial Confirmation Network claims that the Supreme Court's bitterly divided ...
Wendy Long Now Writing Stuart Taylor's Columns
talkleft.com 6/30/2009 — Doug Kendall writes today: In an unbelievable post today, Wendy Long of the ironically-named Judicial Confirmation Network claims that the Supreme Court's bitterly divided 5-4 ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano was actually a 9-0 slap in the face to ...
Conservative media claim Supreme Court decided Ricci "9-0" against Sotomayor
mediamatters.org 7/1/2009 — Following the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano -- which reversed by a 5-4 margin a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- several conservative media figures have claimed that the Supreme Court decided "against" Supreme ...
Media use Ricci to revisit "racist" smear of Sotomayor
mediamatters.org 7/1/2009 — Following the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano -- reversing by a 5-4 margin a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- conservative media figures including Rush Limbaugh, The Washington Times and Investor's ...
Top Headline Comments 06-29-09
minx.cc 6/29/2009 — For comments on the items in the Top Headlines sidebar. A link to these comments is stickied at the top of the Top Headline column. Also: The Supreme Court will be issuing its decision in the white firefighters' case, Ricci...
Ricci ruling
washingtonmonthly.com 6/29/2009 — RICCI RULING.... The Supreme Court this morning did pretty much what everyone expected it to do, ruling that New Haven, Conn., was wrong to deny promotions to white firefighters in the Ricci case. New Haven was wrong to scrap a...
Did the Supreme Court pull the trigger?
powerlineblog.com 6/29/2009 — The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the New Haven firefighters in the Ricci case by a vote of 5-4. This was the discrimination case brought by white firefighters (and one Hispanic) who were denied promotion despite being at the top of the list ...
Conservative Meme: Did All Nine Justices Disagree With Sotomayor?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/30/2009 — This is already making the rounds. Conservatives are alleging that, in today's ruling, all nine Supreme Court justices have disputed the reasoning of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals--and therefore of Sonia Sotomayor herself--in the Ricci case. ...
Waiting For Ricci
justoneminute.typepad.com 6/30/2009 — The Supreme Court should release its decision in the New Haven firefighters case today.
What will she do for an encore?
powerlineblog.com 6/30/2009 — Short of writing "get whitey," It's difficult to imagine how Judge Sotomayor could have fouled up the Ricci case any more than she did. Let's count the ways. First, her panel issued a summary order in a case that ended up being heard by the ...
A Storm’s Coming On Campaign Finance
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 7/1/2009 — Yesterday’s high-profile decision in the Ricci firefighters case obscures another, equally important development which could usher in a new era of corporate money in politics. Traditionally, the Supreme Court decides every single case it ...
Finding Meaning in the New Haven Firefighters Case — the sad red earth
It gives me no pleasure to be in the company of the majority justices in the Supreme Court’s New Haven firefighters decision , Ricci v. DeStefano, (particularly that of Justice Thomas, who only days earlier was the sole justice to support the right of high school administrators to strip ...
The underside of the Ricci case — Power Line
The Supreme Court opinion in Ricci v. DeStefano runs 93 pages including the concurring and dissenting opinions. It is therefore easy to miss the story told in Justice Alito's concurring opinion that lies behind plaintiffs' claims. Justice Alito's concurrence makes out the case that New ...
Supreme Court reverses Sotomayor on Ricci case — News
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of white firefighters in a Connecticut discrimination case, reversing court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's previous ruling. The 5-4 ruling was expected since the oral arguments in the Ricci v. DeStefano. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote in the case, ...
Bad News For Obama: Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor On Ricci Case — Say Anything
Ricci vs. DeStefano is the case from New Haven, Connecticut about the firefighters who sued their municipal employers after they were denied a pay increase because minority fire fighters didn’t pass the same test they passed.  As a member of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, ...
New Haven Case Looms Large for Sotomayor — Politics Daily
When the Supreme Court issues its final rulings of this term on Monday morning, the White House and senators from both parties will be watching most intently for the results of one particular case. That case is Ricci v. DeStefano , a reverse-discrimination case in which 20 firefighters from New ...
"No more quotas: The Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano dealt a final blow to racially motivated hiring; This is the dawning of post-racial America." — How Appealing
"No more quotas: The Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano dealt a final blow to racially motivated hiring; This is the dawning of post-racial America." Law professor John Yoo has this op-ed today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Krauthammer on Ricci v. DeStefano. — Althouse
" Ricci raised the bar considerably on overt discrimination against one racial group simply to undo the unintentionally racially skewed results of otherwise fair and objective employment procedures (in this case, examinations). It's not enough for a city to say, as did New Haven, that it was ...
Hyperlinked Opinion: Ricci v. DeStefano — SCOTUSblog
Courtesy of PARADOCS , a hyperlinked version of the decision in Ricci, et al., v. DeStefano, et al. (07-1428) is available here [Note: the document is hosted on an outside download site because of its large file size]. All references within the opinion are hyperlinked to the relevant documents.
Ricci and the New York Times — Real Clear Politics - TIME.com
Yesterday's New York Times editorializes on the Ricci v. DeStefano decision. They point out, correctly, that the 5-4 ruling in favor of the plaintiffs is hardly a stinging rebuke to Supreme Court...
The ugly origins of the Ricci firefighters case — Betsy's Page
Michael Barone reminds us of how the Ricci case originated. After it turned out that 19 whites and one Hispanic had gotten the highest scores on the qualifying exam, a despicable racemonger went to work to get the results thrown out.Ricci is also something else: a riveting lesson in political ...
Media use Ricci to revisit “racist” smear of Sotomayor — The Hollywood Liberal
Media use Ricci to revisit "racist" smear of Sotomayor Following the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano -- reversing by a 5-4 margin a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- conservative media figures including Rush Limbaugh, ...
Ricci Reactions from Heartland: — The Volokh Conspiracy
The Heartland Institute rounds up reactions to Ricci v. DeStefano, and the case's relevacne to Judge Sotomayor. Comments from Professors Ronald Rotunda and Rick Esenberg, Ilya Shapiro (Cato), Maureen Martin...
With Ricci, Court Redefines Judicial Activism — Firedoglake
ACSBlog has a series of discussions about the Ricci case and underlying labor law, and the changes that Kennedy's majority opinion brought to the mix, which I thought might be of interest to readers. I especially found Sharon Ifill's essay helpful. For my money, the Ricci case takes ...
Olivia Offner: Sotomayor overturned 9-0, Ricci overturned 5-4 — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
A commentary piece in The National Journal sheds new light on the importance of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to overturn Ricci v. DeStefano. Author Stuart Taylor Jr. explains: The Supreme Court's predictable 5-4...
Supreme Court reversal of Sotomayor raises more questions than it answers (Sen. John Cornyn) — Congress Blog
The Supreme Court has now decided Ricci v. DeStefano, commonly known as the New Haven firefighter case. The Supreme Court reversed the lower court decision that was joined by Judge Sotomayor. The Second Circuit saw the case as an easy victory of for the city of New Haven because the city’s ...
Politico ignores Roberts, Alito record in claiming Ricci "could tarnish Sotomayor" — Media Matters for America - Latest Items
A June 30 Politico article about the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano -- which reversed by a 5-4 margin a decision joined by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- promoted the myth that a Supreme Court reversal is somehow unusual. The article bore the headline, ...
Supreme Court: States Have The Right To Investigate National Banks For Lending Discrimination — Wonk Room
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Though the Supreme Court case garnering the most headlines today will be the Ricci v. DeStefano employment discrimination case, a second decision came down with important implications for the future of financial regulation. In a 5-4 decision in Cuomo v. ...
Now up at Forbes.com: my reactions on Ricci — Overlawyered
I’ve got an opinion piece up at Forbes.com on today’s Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DiStefano, the New Haven firefighter reverse-discrimination case. The title: “ Sued If You Do, Sued If You Don’t: Through the Looking Glass on Affirmative Action “. Tags: ...
White House: "Little Political Significance" To Ricci Decision — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The White House insisted on Monday that the political dynamics behind Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination had not changed with the Supreme Court's decision to reverse her earlier ruling on Ricci v. DeStefano . "There is little political significance to whatever the court decided today ...
Olivia Offner: White House: Overturning of Ricci Doesn't Matter — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs did his best to spin the Supreme Court's reversal of Sotomayor's ruling in Ricci vs. DeStefano today during his briefing. Gibbs said that the high court's decision that the white...
Sotomayor foes emboldened by case — msnbc.com: Politics
Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court's reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case.
Discrimination case raises questions for Sotomayor (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court's reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case.
Supreme Court: White firefighters bias victims (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The Supreme Court declared Monday that white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide. ...