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DONAHUE v. CITY OF BOSTON

No. 02-1027.

304 F.3d 110 (2002)

Bradley J. DONAHUE, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. CITY OF BOSTON, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 5, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. McLaughlin, for appellant.

Rory FitzPatrick, with whom Irene C. Freidel, Charles J. Dyer, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, and William V. Hoch were on brief, for the City of Boston appellees.

William E. Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, Government Bureau, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, were on brief, for the state appellees.

Toni G. Wolfman, with whom Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP, Nadine M. Cohen, and Maricia Woodham of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, were on brief, for appellees The Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers and the Boston Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc.

Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Bradley Donahue brought suit in the district court challenging, on equal protection grounds, an affirmative action program for the hiring of Boston police officers. The program is the product of a consent decree entered in 1973. See Castro v. Beecher, 365 F.Supp. 655 (D.Mass. 1973). After concluding that Donahue failed to establish standing to assert his claims, the district court entered...

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