<h2 style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 5px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Supreme Court Sides With White Firefighters In Bias Case</h2> In a dramatic ending before it recessed for the summer, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled, 5-4, that the city of New Haven, Conn., violated the civil rights of white and Hispanic firefighters when it tossed out the results of a promotion exam after no African-Americans had passed it. This overturns a decision joined by Judge Sonia Sotomayor when it was heard at the 2nd Circuit.

Ricci and Racial Politics
Adam Serwer


Today, the Supreme Court decided in favor of white firefighters who alleged racial discrimination in the contentious Ricci case. But did the ruling have more to do with racial politics than the letter of the law?

SCOTUS overturns Sotomayor on Ricci (updated)
June 29, 2009
On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court overturned the Ricci case, in which white firefirefighters were denied promotion because not enough minorities passed it the promotion exam. More