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GUARDIANS ASS'N, ETC. v. CIVIL SERV. COM'N, ETC.

No. 79 Civ. 5314.

484 F.Supp. 785 (1980)

The GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION OF the NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, the Hispanic Society of the New York City Police Department, Nydia I. Diaz, James Michael Hidalgo, Wilfred Cebollero, Andre Lopez, Reinaldo Salgado, Denise Santos, Deborah Holmes, and Pamela Obey, Individually and on behalf of all those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF the CITY OF NEW YORK, Department of Personnel of the City of New York, and the New York City Police Department, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., New York City, for plaintiffs; Kenneth Kimerling and Peter A. Bienstock, New York City, of counsel.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York, New York City, Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae United States of America; Nancy E. Friedman, Richard N. Papper, and Dennison Young, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, David L. Rose and Steven H. Rosenbaum, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Ira H. Leibowitz, Garden City, N. Y., for amicus curiae Policewomen's Endowment Association.

Allen G. Schwartz, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, New York City, for defendants; Judith A. Levitt, Maureen McCabe, New York City, and Steven Goldberg, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel.

REVISED OPINION1

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

Summary of Proceedings

On June 30, 1979, Examination No. 8155 was given to provide an eligibility list of applicants for appointment as police officers on the New York City police force. Approximately 36,797 applicants took the examination. The police department had indicated that it could absorb an eligibility list of some 12,000 candidates over the next four...

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