In a 5-4 decision the United States Supreme Court found in favor of the white firefighters in their discrimination lawsuit against the city of New Haven Connecticut.
This decision will certainly be discussed at length over the next few days, and may have a great impact on future affirmative action type cases.
Here is CNN’s report on the ruling.
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/29/supreme.court.discrimination/index.html