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Sotomayor Helped Push Minority Cases
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 02, 2009 02:05am |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Jul 02, 2009 02:00am |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor helped lead an advocacy group that pushed legal theories about employment and race much like the one scotched by the Supreme Court Monday, according to documents released Wednesday as part of her confirmation process.
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund filed several lawsuits on behalf of minority employees alleging that promotional examinations were racially biased, obtaining judgments or settlements that guaranteed their promotion, sometimes ahead of white employees with higher scores.
In one case against the New York City Police Department, "we obtained quota promotions for Latinos and African Americans to the rank of sergeant," the group said in a May 1992 report.
Questions surrounding a similar case have already become a central focus of Judge Sotomayor's candidacy for the high court. Last year, she joined colleagues on the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in upholding a decision by New Haven, Conn., authorities to junk results from a firefighter promotional exam because black applicants scored too low to advance. The city argued it acted to avoid a lawsuit like those sometimes filed by Judge Sotomayor's old organization on behalf of minority employees.
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