Florida Fire Department Reaches Settlement with DOJ Over Pregnancy...
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by the US Justice Department against the town of Davie, Florida over the fire department’s treatment of pregnant employees. According to the suit, the...
View ArticleLouisiana Discrimination Case Wraps Up 32 Years Later
How long is too long? When it comes to the duration of consent decrees intended to address discriminatory practices in fire departments, that is a question that many firefighters ask. In the case of...
View ArticleDOJ and Austin Settle Discrimination Suit
The City of Austin, Texas and the US Department of Justice have reach an agreement to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed in 2013. The DOJ filed suit on behalf of 12 African-American and 18...
View ArticleBaltimore Settles ADA Claim With Justice Department
The City of Baltimore has settled a case brought by the United States Department of Justice challenging hiring practices that the DOJ claims discriminate against people with disabilities. The suit was...
View ArticleBuffalo Fire Argues That Four Decades is Enough
In 1974, the US DOJ filed suit against Buffalo alleging the fire department’s hiring process was discriminatory. What followed was nearly forty years of court mandated hiring quotas overseen by Judge...
View ArticleFired Texas Recruit Files Race Discrimination Suit
An Austin firefighter cadet who was fired in 2016 for poor performance has filed suit claiming he was the victim of race discrimination. Damon Easter filed suit last Friday in US District Court...
View ArticleCourt Dissolves Chicago Fire Department’s 42-Year-Old Consent Decree
The City of Chicago and the US Department of Justice have agreed to dissolve a 42-year-old consent decree that has governed promotions within the Chicago Fire Department since 1980. The race-based...
View ArticleMassachusetts Consent Decree on Racial Quotas to Expire at the End of 2024
A federal court has ruled that a fifty-year-old consent decree that mandated strict race-conscious hiring quotas for Massachusetts fire departments has achieved its intended goals in all but three...
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