Legal Opinion
N.A.A.C.P., Detroit Branch v. Detroit Police Officers Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 12, 1987No. Nos. 84-1836, 85-1026, 85-1027 and 85-1041PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
Two questions are raised in this case arising from the layoff of black employees hired under an affirmative action plan. The first question is whether prior judicial approval of a public employer’s affirmative action plan forecloses that employer from later laying off recently hired employees who would otherwise be laid off on the basis of seniority under a collective bargaining agreement. This case arises because the City of Detroit laid off 1100 police officers in 1979-80, approximately 75 percent of whom were black. The layoffs *330occurred under the last-hired,…
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- Haring v. ProsiseSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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