Legal Opinion
Lopez v. City of Lawrence, Massachusett
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 18, 2016No. 14-1952PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
In selecting police officers for promotion to the position of sergeant in 2005 and 2008, the City of Boston and several other Massachusetts communities and state employers adapted a test developed by a Massachusetts state agency (“HRD”)1 charged under state law with creating a selection tool that “fairly test[s] the knowledge, skills and abilities which can be practically and reliably measured and which are actually required” by the job in question. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 16. There is no claim in this case that defendants intentionally selected the test in order to…
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