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Ricci v. DeStefano , 557 U.S. 557 (2009), is a United States labor law case of the United States Supreme Court on unlawful discrimination through disparate impact under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 .
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 557 of the United States Reports: Case name ... Ricci v. DeStefano: 557 U.S. 557: 2009:
Karen Lee Torre is an American attorney based in New Haven, Connecticut, [1] most notable for litigating the landmark Supreme Court case of Ricci v. DeStefano. [2] The case was argued by Gregory Coleman before the United States Supreme Court. [3] Torre also represented a female firefighter who sued for sex discrimination in a successful appeal ...
In the 2009 case Ricci v. DeStefano , the U.S. Supreme Court did rule that a fire department committed illegal disparate treatment by refusing to promote white firefighters, in an effort to avoid disparate impact liability in a potential lawsuit by black and Hispanic firefighters who disproportionately failed the required tests for promotion.
In 2008, DeStefano announced massive budget cuts to balance the city's $456 million budget, including the potential closures of an elementary school, police substations, and senior centers. [11] In 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against DeStefano in the discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano. The city had been under a court order to ...
For 16 years, a suburban New York prosecutor’s office insisted it had the right man in a notorious 1996 double killing. The office tried him five times, through a series of hung juries and ...
In his concurring opinion in Ricci v. DeStefano (2009), Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito singled out Kimber for having political motivations in his decision to set aside the results. This brought Kimber into the center of the controversy and led to mass media attention. [ 14 ]
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