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...Supreme Court have wrestled with the vexing dilemmas of affirmative action, they have produced a string of splintered and often confusing rulings. At first glance, the affirmativeaction decisions handed down last week by the high court seemed only to add to the muddle. The cases, one involving Cleveland fire fighters and the other a New York sheet-metal-workers union, were quite different, and the court's rulings were reached by narrow and shifting majorities, as some Justices agreed with parts of one opinion but not others. However, the twin decisions were resoundingly clear on one essential score...
...Cleveland case involved a challenge by Local 93 of the International Association of Firefighters to an affirmative-action plan that had been agreed on by the city and an organization of black and Hispanic fire fighters called the Vanguards. The Vanguards charged the city with discrimination in hiring, assigning and promoting fire fighters in violation of both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution. Cleveland, which had unsuccessfully litigated similar issues for eight years, agreed to a courtapproved settlement under which the city was required to give half of all promotions to minority fire fighters. The white...
...This decision," said Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, "recognizes that the local governmental agencies need the flexibility to settle complex civil rights litigation short of trial when the settlement is in the best interests of both parties." Still, the sailing for the Cleveland Vanguards might not be all that clear. Promptly after the decision, a lawyer for Local 93, Robert A. Dixon, said the union would return to district court and pursue civil rights actions on behalf of individual nonminority fire fighters...
...running again." By the ump's own admission, he told all of his story in the first volumes and then "ran out of my own life." But that has not stopped him from continuing to yammer. This time out, he releases some odd information ("In Cleveland (stadium) they have problems growing grass, so they paint the ground green"), remembers the greatest catch by a fan and includes the autobiographies of some less than celebrated players. Rocky Bridges: "The more I played (with the Dodgers), the more it became obvious that no one there could take a joke. My batting average...
Writing for the court's 6-3 majority in the Cleveland case, Brennan said agreements between employers and minority groups may provide racial preferences even more extensive than a federal court would have awarded after a trial...