United States First Circuit

In a claim of racial discrimination against defendant city, grant of summary judgment for defendants, denial of plaintiff's cross-motion for summary judgment, and denial of motion to alter or amend the judgment are affirmed over claims of error that: 1) selection criteria used by defendant resulted in a less than eighty percent success rate for African-American applications; 2) the selection criteria have had a disparate impact on African-American applicants; and 3) plaintiff was not compensated for serving as Acting General Foreman in 2002 when the then-General Foreman was out on sick-leave.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2008
• Published 08/20/2008

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, O'CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.), and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Winston Kendall, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen A. Glasgow, Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Boston Law Department, with whom William F. Sinnott, Corporation Counsel, was on brief for appellees City of Boston, et al.