http://www.advancingequality.org Asian American Justice Center Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, Asian American Justice Center Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@advancingequality.org Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:17:08 GMT Release http://www.advancingequality.org/en/rel/202/ Washington, D.C– The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) and its affiliates–the Asian American Institute of Chicago, Ill., Asian Law Caucus of San Francisco, Calif. and Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Los Angeles, Calif.–express disappointment with the United States Supreme Court’s decision in the matter of Ricci v. DeStefano, which imposes a new standard on employers. The basis of the case is the City of New Haven’s decision to refuse certification of the results of a firefighter’s promotion test upon discovering that the test was likely discriminatory. AAJC, its affiliates and eight other organizations filed a friend of the court brief in March in support of DeStefano and the City of New Haven. In a 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court stated that the City of New Haven lacked sufficient evidence in deciding that the firefighter’s promotion test was discriminatory in operation, despite strong statistical evidence that showed no African American... http://www.advancingequality.org/en/rel/202/ noemail@advancingequality.org Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT