United States First Circuit

Because the Boston Fire Department has achieved racial parity due to application of the Beecher decree, the city's appointment of firefighters ought no longer be subject to the strictures of the Beecher decree.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2003
• Published 03/27/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, TORRUELLA, SELYA, LYNCH, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harold L. Lichten, with whom Pyle, Rome, Lichten & Ehrenberg, P.C. was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christine M. Roach, with whom Roach & Carpenter, P.C. and Merita A. Hopkins, Corporation Counsel, were on brief, for defendants-appellees., Toni G. Wolfman, with whom Foley Hoag LLP, Nadine M. Cohen, Maricia Woodham, and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law were on brief, for intervenor-appellee.