Firefighters move for promotions
Federal court to settle damages in case that reached Supreme Court
The 20 New Haven firefighters who sued the city for discrimination in 2004 filed a draft order in federal court Friday asking for most of them to be promoted.
The firefighters argue that 15 of them should be promoted because they achieved the requisite scores in a disputed 2003 exam. Under that test, no minorities qualified for promotion, so the city threw out the results. Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled the city's decision unconstitutional.
The city of New Haven filed its own order Friday, arguing that the city should promote certain firefighters who scored well in...
What is going on here? The Court ruled in June. It's almost Thanksgiving and these men are still not in the jobs. Somebody dragging feet??
The wronged firemen ought to get every penny of lost earnings (plus interest) that they would have had if they had been promoted in 2003 as they deserved.
These firefighters STILL have not been promoted???