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BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS UNION, LOCAL 718 v. BOSTON CHAPTER, NAACP

No. 82-185.

463 U.S. 1226 (1983)

BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS UNION, LOCAL 718 v. BOSTON CHAPTER, NAACP, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

July 6, 1983.

Miscellaneous Order

Motion of respondents to retax costs denied. JUSTICE MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.

JUSTICE BLACKMUN, dissenting.

In 1981, the city of Boston decided to lay off hundreds of firefighters and police officers. By statute, Massachusetts requires that civil service layoffs occur in the order of reverse seniority. Mass. Gen. Laws Ann., ch. 31, § 39 (West 1979). Many minority members...

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