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Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor

Decision regarding race-based promotions.

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Expect to hear about this at Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings: The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a group of white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, who claimed they were denied promotions because of their race. The court ruled 5-4 that New Haven was wrong to throw out a promotion exam because no African Americans and only two Hispanics were able to earn promotions from it. Sonia Sotomayor, in a lower court decision, had ruled in favor of the city.

Read it at Associated Press

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