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Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly -- 5 to 4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of the court's four liberals, whose harmony seemed to reflect result-oriented rather than law-driven reasoning. THIS STORY On Race, The Slog Goes On For Sotomayor, a Fine Line in New Haven The 'Radical' Who Isn't The undisputed facts are that in 2003, the city gave promotion exams to 118 firefighters, 27 of them black. The tests were...

<p>Associated Press JACKSONVILLE -- Four white fire lieutenants were not promoted by Jacksonville's black former fire chief because of their race, a jury ruled.</p> <p>The lawsuit focused on the denied promotions of Lts. Michael Price, George Williams, Mike Perryman and Nolen Sauls, who has since died. On Friday, the jury awarded them back pay, finding that race was the motivating factor in former Fire and Rescue Chief Ray Alfred's decision not to create rescue captain positions even though they were next in line for promotion in 1999.</p>