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VULCAN SOC. OF WESTCHESTER CTY. v. FIRE DEPT.

No. 78 Civ. 911.

533 F.Supp. 1054 (1982)

VULCAN SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, INC.; et al., Plaintiffs, v. FIRE DEPARTMENT OF the CITY OF WHITE PLAINS; et al., Defendants, and Professional Fire Fighters Association, Inc., et al., Intervenors-Defendants.

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

February 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teitelbaum & Hiller, New York City, for Vulcan Society of Westchester County, Inc., et al.; Richard Hiller, Herbert Teitelbaum, Richard O. Berner, New York City, of counsel.

Arthur J. Doran, Jr., Acting Corp. Counsel, Yonkers, N.Y., Epstein, Becker, Borsody & Green, New York City, for Yonkers defendants; Robert Villani, Asst. Corp., Yonkers, N.Y., Robert P. Borsody, Ronald M. Green, Susan Schenkel Savitt, Richard Lane Steer, Elliot J. Groffman, New York City, of counsel.

McGovern, Connelly & Davidson, New Rochelle, N.Y., for New Rochelle defendants; Frank H. Connelly, Jr., John A. Vasile, New Rochelle, N.Y., of counsel.

Rains & Pogrebin, Mineola, N.Y., for White Plains and Mount Vernon defendants; Bertrand B. Pogrebin, Bruce R. Millman, Paul J. Schreiber, Mineola, N.Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City, for State defendants; Andrea G. Iason, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

Belson, Connolly & Belson, New York City, for intervenor-defendants; John J. Connolly, Nicholas R. Santangelo, New York City, of counsel.

AMENDED OPINION

SOFAER, District Judge:

This has been a hard-fought employment discrimination case. Plaintiffs sought damages and major recruitment changes in the fire departments of four municipalities in Westchester County: Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains, and Yonkers. Plaintiffs challenged the job requirements for firefighters in those cities, their recruiting practices and policies, and the content of and weight given to the written tests for...

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