Congressional Digest

Excerpt

On the final day before adjourning for its summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated opinion in Ricci v. DeStefano. In a five-to-four decision, the Court ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, could not discard the results of a promotion exam for the city’s firefighters based on the fact that whites performed better on the test than minority candidates. Because of a city policy mandating that only the top three test-takers can be considered for an open position, the results meant no African Americans and only one minority qualified for the seven captain and eight lieutenant j…