Legal Opinion
Bradley v. City of Lynn
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 8, 2006No. Civil Action 05-10213-PBSPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In this class action, the plaintiffs 1 allege that the written civil service cognitive ability examination used in 2002 and 2004 to qualify and rank applicants has had a disparate and adverse impact on Black and Hispanic candidates for entry-level firefighter positions in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a), (k) (2006), and the federal consent decree in Boston Chapter, NAACP, Inc. v. Beecher, 371 F.Supp. 507 (D.Mass.1974) (the “Beecher decree”). The defendants are the Human Resources Division…
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