WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
On May 27, 1987, the City of New Orleans agreed to a consent decree (the "Decree") with a class of African-American police officers (the "Williams Class") who contended that the promotion and hiring policies of the New Orleans Police Department (the "NOPD") were discriminatory. The Decree, which ended 14 years of protracted litigation, established a system to govern hiring and promotion within the NOPD.
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