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U.S. v. VULCAN SOC. INC.

No. 07-cv-2067 (NGG)(RLM).

637 F.Supp.2d 77 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and The VULCAN SOCIETY, INC., Marcus Haywood, Candido Nuñez, Roger Gregg, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The City of New York, Fire Department of the City of New York, New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York City Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, in their individual and official capacities, Defendants.

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

July 22, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot M. Schachner, Michael J. Goldberger, David Michael Eskew, United States Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, NY, Sharon Seeley, Carolyn P. Weiss, Clare F. Geller, David Nathan Reese, Varda Hussain, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Richard A. Levy, Allyson L. Belovin, Dana E. Lossia, Levy Ratner P.C., Beth A. Kaswan, Judith S. Scolnick, Scott and Scott, LLP, Shayana Devendra Kadidal, Anjana Samant, Darius Charney, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Intervenors.

Georgia Mary Pestana, William S.J. Fraenkel, Office of The Corporation Counsel, Edward Lee Sample, II, Vivien V. Ranada, New York City Law Department, Kami Zumbach Barker, Office of Michael A. Cardozo, New York, NY, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

NICHOLAS G. GARAUFIS, District Judge.

From 1999 to 2007, the New York City Fire Department used written examinations with discriminatory effects and little relationship to the job of a firefighter to select more than 5,300 candidates for admission to the New York City Fire Academy. These examinations unfairly excluded hundreds of qualified people of color from the opportunity to serve as New York City firefighters. Today, the court...

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