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2 hrs ago | CourierPostOnline

U.S. still needs race-conscious remedies

The implicit message, delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended last week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.

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6 hrs ago | St. Petersburg Times

If a test is job-related, it's not biased

Were the tests job-related? That is where you have to start when considering the case of whether white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were discriminated against when the city dumped a set of promotional exams after no African-American firefighter scored highly enough to be promoted.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

WFSB-TV Hartford

New Haven Officer Struck By Motorcyclist

A New Haven officer was struck by a motorcycle on Thursday according to police. Police said Officer Matthew Abbate was attempting to stop a group of motorcycles for moving violations when they went toward the dead-end of Hamilton Street.

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The Frederick News Post

Editorial: Firefight

The Supreme Court handed down a headline-grabbing decision on Monday on a subject steeped in emotion and controversy a ' race-based job discrimination.

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The Hartford Courant

Amy Speace At Cafe Nine In New Haven

Amy Speace is no stranger to rejection. Already a seasoned actress, playwright and director in New York City's cutthroat theater scene, she started a music career from scratch.

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American Chronicle

New Haven Store Operators Who Defrauded Food Stamp Program are Sentenced

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a Hamden couple who defrauded the federal Food Stamp Program were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

WTNH

New Haven brothers charged with murder

Two brothers were arrested in connecticut with the murder of Christopher Senior on Sept.

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The Clarion-Ledger

Obama nominees might reshape court on racial remedies

The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.

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Slate

The damage done by the Supreme Court in the New Haven firefighters case.

This Monday, in the New Haven, Conn., firefighters case Ricci v. DeStefano , the Supreme Court held that it's unlawful race discrimination for an employer to refuse to act on the results of a promotion exam because the test eliminated a disproportionate number of minority candidates .

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Freerepublic.com

Firefighter case shows seamy side of racial politics

The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven, Conn., firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination and a repudiation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the Second Circuit Appeals Court.

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13WHAM

Obama: Supreme Court Ruling Curbs, Doesna t End Affirmative Action

AP - President Barack Obama said the Supreme Court is "moving the ball" on affirmative action.

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NewsTimesLive.com

6 bankrupt Conn. nursing homes sold

A Connecticut partnership has bought six nursing homes in the state that have been operating in receivership because of Marathon Healthcare's bankruptcy filing.

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TheNewsTribune.com

Racial bias: Don't fight fire with fire

Taken too far, efforts to fix past racial discrimination tip over into reverse discrimination.

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The Swamp

Continue reading "Firefighters: Sotomayor's benchmark?"

The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a discrimination ruling involving a group of white Connecticut firefighters has provided critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with some fresh ammunition.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

American Chronicle

One Man's Opinion: New Haven Connecticut Fire Department Ruling

Here we are, with another installment of One Man s Opinion . And I want to start off by apologizing to the American Chronicle as well as my readers for not writing for so long.

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Court takes small, unbiased step

Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ricci v. DiStefano is supposed to be a lot of things.

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WTNH

3 wounded in 2 New Haven shootings

New Haven police are investigating two separate shootings in which three people have been wounded.

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MSNBC

NYT: Ruling offers little guidance on fair hiring

Frank Ricci, left, lead plaintiff in the the "New Haven 20" firefighter reverse discrimination case speaks to the media outside of Federal Court in New Haven, Conn., on Monday after the Supreme Court ruled that white firefighters were unfairly denied promotions.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

NewsBusters.org

CBS Frames New Haven as 'Conservative' Justices vs 'Civil Rights Leaders'

In the midst of pretty balanced ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscast stories on the Ricci reverse discrimination case involving New Haven firefighters, who were victorious, one quibble: CBS's Wyatt Andrews framed the ruling as issued by the Supreme Court's a oeconservativea justices and opposed not by liberals but by a oecivil rights leaders,a as if ...

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NewsTimesLive.com

Alito: New Haven test rejection was political

The city decided in 2004 to reject the results of a firefighters' promotion exam not because of federal law, but to placate a key supporter of Mayor John DeStefano, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote in an opinion Monday.

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