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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF BUFFALO

Nos. CIV-73-414C, CIV-74-195C.

609 F.Supp. 1252 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., Elijah Feaster, Maria Fuller, Beverly Johnson, Darwin Jones, Doris Lewis, David Malone, Robert Middlebrooks, Harrison Mullen, William Stenson, William Westbrook and Nathaniel Wright, Plaintiff-Intervenors, Sherman Abdallah, Richard Cruz, Marilyn Mack, Joanne Rizzo, Christine Salamone, Deidre Wallace and Gwendolyn Williams, Plaintiff-Intervenors, William Blake, Joseph Coniglio, Cindy Diem, Charles Flynn, James Howe, Don Just, James P. Kennedy, Michael J. Krzeminski, Timothy McDonald, Maureen Oakley, Patrick S. O'Mara, Paul Skinner, Kevin Veith, Thomas Vivian, Ronald Zaprzal and Taras Znaczko, Plaintiff-Intervenors, Afro-American Police Association, Inc., Danny Williams, John Dublin, John Clarence Eberhart, Timothy Irving Baldon, Mark Anthony Rice and Vernon Keith Beaty, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. CITY OF BUFFALO, a Municipal Corporation, and County of Erie, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF BUFFALO, a Municipal Corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. New York.

June 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D.C. (David L. Rose, and Richard S. Ugelow, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for plaintiff U.S.

Magavern & Magavern, Buffalo, N.Y. (James L. Magavern, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenors Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., et al.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City (Paul C. Saunders, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenors Afro-American Police Ass'n, et al.

Leonard F. Walentynowicz, Buffalo, N.Y., for plaintiff-intervenors William Blake, et al.

Sara O. Naples, Corp. Counsel of the City of Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. (Michael B. Risman, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant City of Buffalo.

Kenneth Kimmerling, New York City, for amicus curiae Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Inc.

CURTIN, Chief Judge.

The Supreme Court's decision in Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts, ___ U.S. ___, 104 S.Ct. 2576, 81 L.Ed.2d 483 (1984), has prompted the United States to file a motion for a prospective modification of a remedial hiring decree filed by the court on November 23, 1979. That decree was based upon this court's finding (after a lengthy trial) that the City of Buffalo, through its police and fire departments, unlawfully discriminated...

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