The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1985
The Justice Department, maintaining that a federal court misinterpreted a 1984 Supreme Court reverse-discrimination decision, filed a brief on behalf of five white Massachusetts police officers seeking to challenge the promotion of a black. In the latest of a series of attempts to broaden the application of the high court’s decision, the department’s civil rights division urged the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston to reverse a lower court’s ruling denying the challenge by the white policemen.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
