BRADLEY v. CITY OF LYNN

Civil Action No. 05-10213-PBS.

443 F.Supp.2d 145 (2006)

Jacob BRADLEY, Noah Bradley, Keith Ridley, and Jared Thomas, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF LYNN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 8, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nadine M. Cohen, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mark D. Selwyn, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Alfred Gordon, Harold L. Lichten, Shannon E. Liss-Riordan, Pyle, Rome, Lichten, Ehrenberg & Liss-Riordan, P.C., Boston, MA, for Plaintiffs.

George S. Markopoulos, James Lamanna, City Solicitor's Office, Lynn, MA, Ronald F. Kehoe, Sookyoung Shin, Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this class action, the plaintiffs1 allege that the written civil service cognitive ability examination used in 2002 and 2004 to qualify and rank applicants has had a disparate and adverse impact on Black and Hispanic candidates for entry-level firefighter positions in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §...

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