Legal Opinion
20 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1728, 21 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 30,313 Detroit Police Officers' Association v. Coleman A. Young, Mayor of the City of Detroit
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1979No. 78-1163PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment of the district court which permanently enjoined the defendants from continuing the operation of an affirmative action program by the Detroit Police Department. The plaintiffs are an association of police officers and a number of white Detroit policemen who were passed over for promotion to the rank of sergeant when black officers with lower numerical standings on the eligibility list received promotions. The district court found that the affirmative action program offended the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and…
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