Mountain States Legal Foundation
amicus curiae
J. Scott Detamore, Counsel of RecordMountain States Legal Foundation is nonprofit public-interest law firm dedicated to the preservation of individual liberties, the right to own and use property, the free enterprise system, and limited and ethical government. J. Scott Detamore is the Managing Attorney of the foundation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on February 26, 2009.The Civil Service Board of New Haven, Connecticut, under pressure from New Haven’s mayor and city attorney, refused, by a vote of 2 to 2 with one abstention, to certify the…
