Report Summary October 17, 2008
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Affirmative Action
Is it time to end racial preferences?

The Supreme Court's June 29, 2009, ruling in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., was perhaps the key event in affirmative action over the past two years. The firefighters had challenged the city's decision to discard a competency test for determining promotions after black firefighters taking the test had underperformed. The 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano prompted Fordham. . . .

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Affirmative Action. (2008, October 17). CQ Researcher, 18, 841-864. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
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Document URL: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2008101715


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