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"Supreme Court Finds Bias Against White Firefighters"

"Supreme Court Finds Bias Against White Firefighters": Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. The newspaper also contains an article headlined "Supreme Court Ruling Offers Little Guidance on Hiring." And Linda Greenhouse has an op-ed entitled "The Court Changes the Game."

Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that "Justices Rule for White Firemen In Bias Lawsuit; Sotomayor's Decision Is Overturned." The newspaper also contains an article headlined "No Peril Seen for Sotomayor"; an editorial entitled "Flunking the Test: The Supreme Court should have had more information before deciding the case of New Haven firefighters"; and an op-ed by columnist George F. Will entitled "On Race, The Slog Goes On."

In The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that "Ruling for white firefighters may alter hiring; The Supreme Court says white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were the victims of illegal discrimination when the city tossed out their test results and denied them promotions." James Oliphant reports that "Ruling in firefighters case fuels critics of Sotomayor; The Supreme Court's reversal of a discrimination ruling by an appeals panel that included Sotomayor is seen by conservatives as a rebuke of her handling of the case." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "The Supreme Court's discrimination ruling: It's not black and white; The court faced complex issues in the New Haven, Conn., controversy; It offered a measured ruling."

In USA Today, Joan Biskupic reports that "Ruling's impact on hiring weighed; High court reverses Sotomayor's panel." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "Firefighters ruling draws new lines on race and hiring; Better ways than rigid tests exist to determine job promotions" and an op-ed by Michael E. Rosman entitled "Make race irrelevant: Not every workplace can end up 'looking like America.'"

In The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin and Suzanne Sataline report that "Ruling Upends Race's Role in Hiring." Bravin also has an article headlined "Decision Reflects Court's Deep Division." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "Firefighter Justice: The Supremes, Sotomayor, and racial jurisprudence."

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Firefighter ruling dials up heat on Sotomayor; The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a decision that she had made as part of a three-judge panel; The case centered on issues of race and discrimination." The newspaper also has an op-ed entitled "The Ricci ruling's real message: The heated, even political debate among the justices calls for a national race debate." And law professor Kermit Roosevelt has an op-ed entitled "The Ricci riddle and the law's limits: What you thought about the New Haven firefighters case was probably shaped less by logic or law than by your attitudes about the world."

The New Haven Register contains articles headlined "Firefighters win: 'Truest vindication' yet to come"; "Alito's opinion notes Kimber's heavy hand"; and "Decision shouldn't hurt Sotomayor, law experts say."

The Hartford Courant reports that "U.S. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of New Haven Firefighters; Supreme Court Firefighter Opinion reverses a decision that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed."

The Boston Globe reports that "Supreme Court rules in favor of Conn. firefighters; Group accused city of racial discrimination."

And law.com's Tony Mauro reports that "Justices Rule in Firefighters Bias Case, Bid Farewell to Souter."

Full post as published by How Appealing on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).