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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Amid blaring bagpipes, the crowd cheered when firefighters received their promotional badges Thursday after a five-year legal battle that ended with a U.S. Supreme Court victory.
The high court ruled in June that New Haven officials violated white firefighters’ civil rights when they threw out 2003 test results in which too few minorities did well.
Fourteen firefighters who sued were promoted to lieutenant and captain. Another 10 firefighters, including four minorities, who took the 2003 tests but were not plaintiffs in the court case also were promoted along with an inspector.
