Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Equal Justice Society
Amici Curiae
Michael L. Foreman, Counsel of Record The four organizations in this amicus brief are nonprofit civil rights organizations. Michael L. Foreman is a professor and director of the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic at Penn State University. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 25, 2009.By not adopting the results of a discriminatory promotional examination that demonstrated a gross adverse impact upon the minorities on the list, the Civil Service Board and the City of New Haven did not act in a manner that would require strict…
