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DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASS'N v. YOUNG

No. 91-1806.

989 F.2d 225 (1993)

DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION; William Morgan; Brian Brunett; Donald Prince, Individually and as Representatives of a Class, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Coleman A. YOUNG, Mayor, City of Detroit; Philip G. Tannian, Chief, Detroit Police Department; Douglas Fraser; Susan Cooper; Charles Butler; Edward Littlejohn; Alexander Ritchie, Members of the Board of Police Commissioners; the City of Detroit, a municipal corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 24, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan D. Sobel (briefed), Casimir J. Swastek, Rubenstein, Isaacs, Lax & Bordman, Southfield, and Thomas P. Brady (argued and briefed), Detroit, MI, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dennis Burnett, City of Detroit Law Dept., Detroit, MI, Daniel B. Edelman (argued and briefed), Yablonski, Both & Edelman, Washington, DC, Barry Goldstein, Saperstein & Seligman, Oakland, CA and James R. Andary, Mt. Clemens, MI, for defendants-appellees.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; NORRIS, Circuit Judge; and WELLFORD, Senior Circuit Judge.

WELLFORD, Senior Circuit Judge.

For a third time since 1968 when "the Detroit Police Department began to take concrete measures to remedy the effects of past discrimination in its police force," we are confronted with an appeal challenging, this time, the continued effectuation of an affirmative action plan which gives "preference ... to black patrolmen in the initial promotion to sergeant." Detroit Police Officers Assoc. v. Young, 824 F.2d...

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