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Lawsuits challenging state civil service firefighter and police examinations as having an unlawful disparate impact on minority applicants
Few minority police supervisors Lawsuit challenges fairness of police promotional test Will Patrick stand tall? Judge orders fire departments to offer jobs Judge says firefighter tests biased and unfair Jacob Bradley et al. v. City of Lynn et al., 443 F.Supp.2d 145 (D.Mass. 2006) (following class action bench trial, court found that civil service exam had disparate impact on minorities, resulting in $2.15 million court-approved settlement, including the statewide hiring of more than 60 minority firefighters and police officers)
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