United States First Circuit

Plaintiff has standing to bring a claim for prospective equal protection relief, based on denial of appointment to a police department under a facially race-conscious hiring policy, if he demonstrates that he is "able and ready" to apply for future appointment to the department.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2002
• Published 09/05/2002

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael C. McLaughlin, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• 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.