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CHMILL v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH

488 Pa. 470 (1980)

412 A.2d 860

John S. CHMILL, David Hirosky, John G. Holtz, Thomas Pflum, David J. Puciata, Lawrence T. Yakich and Paul R. Myers, v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH, Pittsburgh Civil Service Commission and Stephen A. Glickman, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 20, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mead J. Mulvihill, Jr., City Sol., Robert B. Smith, Asst. City Sol., Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Sanford A. Segal, Christopher Lepore, Gatz, Cohen, Segal & Koerner, M.J. McCaney, Jr., Pittsburgh, for appellees.

Robert S. Mirin, Harrisburg, Marc Kranson, Washington, D.C., John E. Benjes, Harrisburg, for appellant-intervenor Pa. Human Relations Com.

Patricia G. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael Louik, Deputy Atty. Gen., Pittsburgh, for appellant-intervenor Com. of Pa.

Myrna P. Field, Mid-Atlantic Legal Foundation, Philadelphia, for amicus curiae.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This case presents the question of whether a municipal employer which has been found guilty of racial discrimination by a federal court may institute temporary remedial race-conscious hiring. Plaintiffs, white applicants for jobs as firefighters in the City of Pittsburgh, challenge the Pittsburgh Civil Service Commission's proposed use of race-conscious hiring procedures to correct racial discrimination in the Pittsburgh...

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