Exams for promotion to ranks of captain and lieutenant

Assignment Help Management Theories

Reference no: EM131006679

The New Haven Fire Department gave exams for promotion to the ranks of Captain and Lieutenant. Forty-one applicants took the captain's exam, including twenty-five whites, eight African Americans, and eight Latinos. Seventy-seven applicants took the lieutenant's exam, including forty-three whites, nineteen African Americans, and fifteen Latinos. When the results of the exams came back, they showed that, at most, two Latinos would be eligible for promotion to cap- tain. No African Americans would be eligible for either position. Despite its efforts to create a race- neutral exam, the city feared that it would face an adverse impact suit from non-white applicants denied promotion. The city chose instead not to certify the exam results and not to make any promotions. Seventeen white candidates and one Latino who would have been eligible for promo- tion based on the exam results sued the city. What should the court decide? Why? (Ricci v. DeStefano, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 12261 (2d Cir.))

Reference no: EM131006679

Questions Cloud

Find the long run cost total cost and short run total cost : Consider a firm with a production function F(l, k) = l^{\frac{3}{4}} k^{\frac{1}{4}} , who faces input prices w = 2 and v = 54. Find the long run cost total cost when q=540. Find the short run cost total cost when q=540 and k is fixed at 16. Find the..

Do you agree with anselm argument : Do you agree with Anselm's argument? Does anything seem a little strange about Anselm's reasoning or do you notice any problems with Anselm's argument? When answering this question make sure to include references to the assigned readings in you..

Firms research department has estimated elasticity of demand : Your firm's research department has estimated the elasticity of demand for toys to be -0.7. As the manager of the firm, determine the impact of an 8% increase in toy prices on your total revenues.

Prepare the journal entries to record : The company purchased a building by issuing a three-year installment note. The note is to be repaid in equal installments of $1 million per year beginning one year hence. The current market rate of interest is 12%.

Exams for promotion to ranks of captain and lieutenant : The New Haven Fire Department gave exams for promotion to the ranks of Captain and Lieutenant. Forty-one applicants took the captain's exam, including twenty-five whites, eight African Americans, and eight Latinos.

Describe the change in the interpretation : Describe the change in the interpretation of the due process clause and is the present interpretation health and realistic?

African americans currently in promotional positions : The Omaha Fire Department had an affirmative action plan that provided for the following regarding promotions: The percentage of African Americans currently in promotional positions was compared against the percentage available within the departme..

Discuss clarke cosmological arguement : Analyze and discuss one and only one of the following two classical arguement for the existence of god- St, Anselm's Ontological Arguement and Clarke's Cosmological Arguement

Windows server 2008 and windows server 2012 : A research report that will cover five of the differences between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 that interest you the most. Be sure to provide a clear and thorough description for each of the five areas that you choose in the report.

User Account

All Pages