Legal Opinion
Police Ass'n of New Orleans Ex Rel. Cannatella v. City of New Orleans
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 10, 1996No. 95-30541, 95-30637PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
On May 27, 1987, the City of New Orleans agreed to a consent decree (the “Decree”) with a class of African-American police officers (the ‘Williams Class”) who contended that the promotion and hiring policies of the New Orleans Police Department (the “NOPD”) were discriminatory. The Decree, which ended 14 years of protracted litigation, established a system to govern hiring and promotion within the NOPD.
In the first of these two consolidated cases, Police Association of New Orleans [PANO] v. City of New Orleans, the PAÑO and 24 police officers who are not African-American…
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