Legal Opinion
Pollard v. City of Hartford
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided June 1, 1982No. Civ. H-81-330PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ PENDING MOTIONS
BLUMENFELD, Senior District Judge.
In this action the plaintiffs challenge a written examination given by the City of Hartford in December 1980 to candidates for entry positions as officers with the Hartford Police Department. The named plaintiffs are a black female and an Hispanic female, respectively, who took and failed this examination. They seek to represent a class of “all persons similarly situated who constitute a class of those black or Hispanic or female persons failing the entry level examination.” The plaintiffs allege that the examination had…
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