Huge victory for equal rights, labor rights, and justice [View All]

This is a great victory for equality of treamtent under the law, justice, and labor rights.

It puts a nice dent into the pure disparate impact theory arguments that have been used to justify discrimination. Note, i did not say (as CNN does) "reverse discrimination". discrimination is discrimination. no "reverse" needed.

This will have no impact on legitimate affirmative action practices (improved outreach, scope etc.) but will put a big kibosh on cities, states, etc. trying to discriminate against people based on their race.

The title VII argument is sound.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with white firefighters in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, a divisive case over the role race should play in job advancement.


The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling backs firefighters in a reverse discirmination case.

1 of 2 In the split 5-4 vote, a majority of the justices ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, improperly threw out the results of promotional exams that officials said left too few minorities qualified.

One Latino and no African-American firefighters qualified for promotion based on the exam; the city subsequently decided not to certify the results and issued no promotions.

A group of 20 mostly white firefighters sued, claiming reverse discrimination.nt i