Legal Opinion
United States v. Paradise
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 1987No. 85-999PublishedCited by 442 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Brennan
The question we must decide is whether relief awarded in this case, in the form of a one-black-for-one-white promotion requirement to be applied as an interim measure to state trooper promotions in the Alabama Department of Public Safety (Department), is permissible under the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1972 the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama held that the Department had systematically excluded blacks from employment in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Some 11 years later, confronted with the Department’s failure to develop…
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