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U.S. v. STATE OF N.J.

Civ. A. Nos. 950-73, 77-2054 and 79-184.

658 F.Supp. 9 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

October 14, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald L. George, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D.C., Thomas Greelish, U.S. Atty., Newark, N.J., for U.S.

Thomas P. Calligy, Asst. City Atty., Dept. of Law, Hoboken, N.J., for Hoboken.

Mark Fleming, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for the State of N.J.

David Grosman, Schneider, Cohen & Solomon, Jersey City, N.J., for intervenors Sheridan, et al.

Jacqueline Drakeford, City Sol., Plainfield, N.J.

N. Thomas Foster, City Atty., Dept. of Law, Camden, N.J.

Jonathan M. Hyman, Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Newark, N.J.

Ralph L. DeLuccia, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Paterson, N.J.

Stanley Adamcik, City Atty., Dept. of Law, Trenton, N.J.

Thomas Fodice, Asst. Corp. Counsel, City of Jersey City, Jersey City, N.J.

Daniel A. Williamson, City Atty., Plainfield, N.J.

Matthew H. Powals, Asst. City Solicitor, Legal Dept., Atlantic City, N.J.

Raymond T. Bolanowski, First Asst. City Atty., Elizabeth, N.J.

Edward Trawinski, Asst. City Atty., Law Dept., Passaic, N.J.

Lucille LaCosta-Davino, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Newark, N.J.

Louis Childress, Asst. City Counsel, East Orange, N.J.

James M. Cahill, Asst. City Atty., New Brunswick, N.J.

James P. Granello, Murray and Granello, Little Silver, N.J., for City of Camden.

Rinaldo & Rinaldo, Elizabeth, N.J., for N.J. Firemen's Benevolent Ass'n.

Brian Doherty, Carroll, Panepinto, & Paolino, Jersey City, N.J., for Professional Fire Officers Ass'n.

Michael Herbert, Sterns, Herbert & Weinroth, Trenton, N.J., for N.J. State Firefighter Ass'n.

J.A. Pojanowski, III, Passaic, N.J., for City of Passaic.

Vicky Donaldson, East Orange, N.J., for Newark Bd. of Ed.

SAROKIN, District Judge.

On December 19, 1985 this court issued an opinion declaring invalid the civil service exams used by the State of New Jersey for promoting fire fighters to the first level supervisory rank of fire lieutenant or captain.1 It was this court's finding that the exams administered in the twelve defendant municipalities "exhibited a pattern of impact adverse to minority candidates" in violation of both Title VII and the...

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