White Firefighters Victims of Racial Bias, Court Rules
The District of Columbia discriminated against five white firefighters when it passed them over for a promotion and chose a less experienced black instead, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
A panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a lower court finding that the white men were not the victims of reverse discrimination.
The case now returns to the lower court, which was ordered to reconsider other claims involved in the dispute and to design a remedy to compensate the five men for the discrimination.
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