Legal Opinion
Briscoe v. City of New Haven
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 15, 2011No. Docket 10-1975-cvPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:
This appeal raises a disparate-impact issue that was expressly anticipated in Ricci v. DeStefano, — U.S. -, 129 S.Ct. 2658, 174 L.Ed.2d 490 (2009), and which has arisen in the aftermath of that case.
The City of New Haven and the New Haven Civil Service Board (“CSB”), which administer the city’s firefighter promotion exams, had been concerned that white candidates had outperformed minority candidates on the 2003 exams. The city feared that certifying the results would trigger disparate-impact liability under Title VII. After several tense public hearings concerning…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Griggs v. Duke Power Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Taylor v. SturgellSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Ricci v. DeStefanoSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Hansberry v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
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3Cited by19 opinions
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. North Hudson Regional Fire & RescueCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2011
- Mark Maraschiello v. City of Buffalo Police DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2013
- Blackrock Financial Management Inc. v. Segregated Account of AMBAC Assurance Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2012
- Gulino v. Board of Education of the City School DistrictDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2012
- Latonya Cannon v. Armstrong Containers Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2024
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