COHEN v. WEST HAVEN BD. OF POLICE COM'RS

No. 84, Docket 80-7233.

638 F.2d 496 (1980)

Barbra COHEN, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WEST HAVEN BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS, Louis D'Onofrio, Morton Hecht, Eugene McCarthy, Alex Botte, and Joseph Celentano, individually and in their capacity as West Haven Police Commissioners, The West Haven Police Department, Joseph Harvey, individually and in his capacity as Chief of the West Haven Police Department, and Robert Johnson, individually and in his capacity as Mayor of the City of West Haven, Connecticut, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Garrison, New Haven, Conn. (Garrison, Kahn, Crane & Silbert, New Haven, Conn., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Charles H. Fischer, Jr., Asst. Corp. Counsel, City of West Haven, West Haven, Conn., for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, NICKERSON, District Judge.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from certain portions of a final judgment entered in a class action brought by Barbra Cohen against the Board of Police Commissioners of West Haven, Connecticut, and others responsible for the hiring of police officers in West Haven (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "City"). Cohen commenced the action in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, alleging that a physical agility test used by...

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