Legal Opinion
Brown v. New Haven Civil Service Board
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided July 27, 1979No. Civ. N-78-234PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge. *
The three plaintiffs, Black citizens of Connecticut, have brought this suit alleging racial discrimination in testing and hiring for the New Haven police force during 1978. The basic claim is that a written examination administered in February, 1978, to applicants for the police force had a disproportionate impact upon Blacks that cannot be justified by job-relatedness. The defendants respond that the percentage of Blacks hired by the New Haven Police Department, as the end result of selection procedures…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Cohen v. West Haven Board of Police CommissionersCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Guardians Ass'n of New York City Police Department, Inc. v. Civil Service Commission of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- 23 Fair empl.prac.cas. 677, 23 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 31,153, 6 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 724 the Guardians Association of the New York City Police Department, Inc., the Hispanic Society of the New York City Police Department, Inc., Oswaldo Perez and Felix E. Santos Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Civil Service Commission of the City of New York, Department of Personnel of the City of New York, the New York City Police Department, Alphonse D'ambrose, Individually and in His Capacity as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission of the City of New York and Personnel Director of the City of New York, James Smith and Josephine Gambino, Individually and in Their Capacity as Members of the Civil Service Commission of the City of New York, and Michael J. Codd, Individually and in His Capacity as Commissioner of the New York Police Department, DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Teal v. ConnecticutCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
- Reich v. New York HospitalDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1981
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