Do you think the Supreme Court ruled correctly?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Future Lawyers, how do you think about this case?</p>

<p>“Twenty New Haven firefighters – 19 of them white, one of them Hispanic – stood outside the federal courthouse on Church Street on Monday. Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had ruled in their favor. Dressed in blue uniforms, the “New Haven 20,” as they have come to be known, declared victory on a legal battle that began in 2004, when the city scrapped the results of a promotional exam after finding that black firefighters had scored poorly.”</p>

<p>Somehow it reminds me of the Hopwood case related to UT Law School. An issue I can think of: Is a written test like this a good criteria for this particular profession? Or, should a more holistic evaluation method be used here? It appears that the battle for a touchy issue like this (as well as public school funding) has been unresolved for decades.</p>

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<p>are you debating the decision or are you debating the method used to test the applicants? They are completely different.</p>

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<p>While perhaps an interesting theoretical discussion, don’t add facts where there are none. The City of New Haven never claimed that it’s test was racially biased and thus, did not use that as the excuse to throw out the results. Indeed, the few witnesses on the subject indicated that it was not biased. Also, one mitigating factor which I think is lost in the press is that this test (and any others used by the City) was approved by the employee unions, thru collective bargaining…</p>

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<p>And don’t forget, the court ruled 9-0 that the judicial methods used the first time around were clearly shoddy</p>