Coffey v. Braddy

ORDER

TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, District Judge.

After years of trying to remedy racial discrimination in the City of Jacksonville fire department, a predecessor judge of this Court entered a consent decree in 1982 requiring the City to hire “an equal number of blacks and whites until the ratio of black fire fighters to white fire fighters reflects the ratio of black citizens to white citizens in the City of Jacksonville.” Doc. 160, Ex. 5. The City complied until 1992 when it unilaterally, without notice and without the Court’s approval, simply stopped following the Court’s decree. Immediately…