Legal Opinion
Middleton v. City of Flint
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided January 7, 1993No. 4:90-cv-40148PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
NEWBLATT, District Judge.
Facts and Procedural History
This is a fourteenth amendment challenge to the City of Flint’s affirmative action plan (“Plan”) for promoting police officers to sergeant. The Plan established hiring requirements that may fairly be characterized as a 1:1 hiring quota. When the Flint Police Department requires additional police sergeants, it hires alternately a minority applicant and a Caucasian applicant from the list of eligible applicants. Eligibility is determined by a test score, weighted for seniority of the applicant. See Defendants’…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Hazelwood School District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Wygant v. Jackson Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- United States v. ParadiseSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Paul Bender, George and Diane Decarlo v. Southland CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Middleton v. City of FlintCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
- Middleton v. City of Flint, MichiganCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996