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Supreme Court To Hear Case Of Firemen Suing For Anti-White Discrimination
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Christian Science Monitor: The US Supreme Court has agreed to take up a potential major reverse discrimination case examining the use of race as a factor in government hiring. The announcement came Friday afternoon after the justices’ private conference earlier in the day. The case will likely be argued in April. It stems from a 2004 lawsuit filed by white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who say they passed an exam for a job promotion only to have the test results thrown out because no African-American candidate received a high ...

Supreme Court to Hear Firefighters’ Case
La Shawn Barber's Corner — ... defined the issue this way: “May a municipal employer disregard the results of a qualifying examination, which was carefully constructed to ensure race-neutrality, on the ground that the results of that examination yielded too many qualified applicants of one race and not enough of another?” The appeals court declined to hear the case by a vote of 7 to 6. Download the 72-page opinion (PDF). Ricci petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, and last week, the court agreed to hear the case. I’ve written about this issue before. A few ...

Introducing 'Frank the Firefighter'
Politics Daily — ... The story of Frank Ricci, though, is a compelling one of a blue collar working man who was doing his best to try to get ahead, only to be denied a promotion based on his race. As the Christian Science Monitor reported, ...

Matt Lewis: Introducing 'Frank the Firefighter': The Right Way to Take on Sotomayor
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... though they passed the requisite test. The problem, you see, was that the no black firefighters passed the same test, and thus, no black firefighters were eligible for the promotion. Judge Sotomayor was one of the judges who ruled that the city was within their rights to refuse to promote anyone. The story of Frank Ricci , though, is a compelling one of a blue collar working man who was doing his best to try to get ahead, only to be denied a promotion based on his race. As the Christian Science Monitor reported, Among the firefighters who sued was Frank Ricci. He said he ...