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N.A.A.C.P., NEWARK BRANCH v. TOWN OF HARRISON N.J.

Civ. A. No. 89-5413.

749 F.Supp. 1327 (1990)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, NEWARK BRANCH, National Association For the Advancement of Colored People; Paterson Branch, National Association For the Advancement of Colored People; Passaic Branch, National Association For the Advancement of Colored People; Jersey City Branch, National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, New Jersey State Conference, National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, Plaintiffs, v. TOWN OF HARRISON, NEW JERSEY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

As Amended November 5, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan M. Hyman, David Rose, Joshua N. Rose, Everald Thompson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, NAACP/SCF, Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Newark, N.J., for plaintiffs.

Voorhees & Aciavatti by Christopher J. Bednarz and Karen P. Weismann, Morristown, N.J., for defendant.

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

In this action the Newark, Paterson, Passaic and Jersey City Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the New Jersey State Conference of the NAACP, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sue the Town of Harrison, seeking to invalidate the Town's policies and ordinances which limit hiring for municipal jobs to residents of the Town. The population of Harrison is 99.8% non-black...

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