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Supreme Court Reverses Ricci Decision; Finds White Firefighters Unfairly Denied Promotion

By Emily Douglas

June 29, 2009 - 9:08am

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The Supreme Court has reversed the Second Circuit ruling in Ricci vs. DeStefano, the case in which white firefighters have argued that they had been discriminated against when a promotional exam on which no African-American firefighters scored highly enough to be promoted was discarded.

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