Legal Opinion
Quinn v. City of Boston
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 27, 2003No. 02-1727PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
For over a quarter of a century, the hiring of firefighters in the City of Boston (the City) has taken place in the albedo of a federal court consent decree designed to remedy the effects of past discrimination against African-Americans and Hispanics. On April 11, 2001, five candidates for employment (the Candidates) brought suit in the federal district court alleging that the City had discriminated against them on the basis of race-when hiring new firefighters in the fall of 2000. The City defended its hiring practices as compliant with, and compelled by, the terms of…
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