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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 12:47 PM
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The firefighters decision Sotomayor was part of a three judge panel,went against Hispanic
Edited on Tue May-26-09 12:52 PM by Peacetrain
and Caucasian litigants when they refused to rehear the complaint letting the litigants bump it to the next level if they chose. The right, never gets it right..I wonder if Mitt is feeling like a complete tool yet?

In Sotomayor’s most famous case, Ricci v. DeStefano, she joined a three-judge panel upholding the rejection of a lawsuit from white and Hispanic firefighters from New Haven, Conn., who were denied promotions even though no African-American firefighters passed the examination. The firefighters are claiming racial discrimination; Sotomayor and her colleagues refused to re-hear the case. The US Supreme Court is currently considering the case

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/white-house-off.html
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