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VULCAN SOC. OF N. Y. CITY FIRE DEPT., INC. v. CIVIL SERV. COM'N

Nos. 414, 415, Dockets 73-2287, 73-2317.

490 F.2d 387 (1973)

The VULCAN SOCIETY OF the NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF the CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees, Nicholas M. Cianciotto et al., Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 21, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice N. Nessen, New York City, Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen & Kamin and Thomas H. Moreland, for plaintiffs-appellees-appellants. Jack Greenberg, Jeffry A. Mintz, William R. Robinson, Deborah M. Greenberg, Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., Ceasar A. Perales, Herbert Teitelbaum and Kenneth Kimerling, New York City, of counsel.

Nina G. Goldstein, New York City (Norman Redlich, Corp. Counsel, City of New York; Stanley Buchsbaum, Paula J. Omansky and Frances Loren, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants-appellees.

Thomas J. Dillon, Manhasset, N. Y., for intervenors-defendants-appellants-appellees.

Edward M. Edenbaum, New York City, for Richard J. Vizzini as President, Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, amicus curiae.

Joel Field, New York City, for David McCormack as President, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, Local 854 I.A.F.F., AFL-CIO, amicus curiae.

David I. Caplan, New York City, for Jewish Rights Council, amicus curiae.

Before LUMBARD, FRIENDLY and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

As in Chance v. Board of Examiners, 458 F.2d 1167 (2 Cir. 1972), and Bridgeport Guardians, Inc. v. Members of the Bridgeport Civil Service Comm'n, 482 F.2d 1333 (2 Cir. 1973), we are confronted with a claim that a city has unintentionally discriminated with respect to the employment of minority group members. Here, as in Chance, the city is New York; the alleged discrimination...

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