Legal Opinion
William Hayden v. County of Nassau, United States of America and Nassau County Guardians Association, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 9, 1999No. Docket 98-6113PublishedCited by 635 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEITH, Circuit Judge:
William Hayden and 67 other white, Latino and female applicants to the Nassau County Police Department challenge a district court order which dismissed their class action suit pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) and 12(c). The district court found that the police department’s entrance examination, although designed with race in mind (i.e., to minimize the discriminatory impact on minority candidates), was administered and scored in a race-neutral fashion. As such, the court concluded that appellants, failed to state a claim entitling them to relief under the Equal…
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