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Nos. 07-1428, 08-328
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In The
Supreme Court of the United States
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---------------------------------FRANK RICCI, ET AL.,
Petitioners,
v.JOHN DESTEFANO, ET AL.,
Respondents.
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On Writs Of Certiorari To TheUnited States Court Of AppealsFor The Second Circuit
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BRIEF OF THE CATO INSTITUTE,REASON FOUNDATION, ANDTHE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION AS
AMICI CURIAE
IN SUPPORTOF PETITIONERS
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QUESTIONS PRESENTED
This case presents the question whether Title VIIand the Equal Protection Clause allow a governmentemployer to reject the results of a civil-service selec-tion process because it does not like the racial distri-bution of the results. Specifically:1. When a content-valid civil-service ex-amination and race-neutral selectionprocess yield unintended, racially dis-proportionate results, do a municipalityand its officials racially discriminate inviolation of the Equal Protection Clauseor Title VII when they reject the resultsand the successful candidates to achieveracial proportionality in candidates se-lected?2. Does an employer violate 42 U.S.C.§ 2000e-2(
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), which makes it unlawful foremployers “to adjust the scores of, usedifferent cutoff scores for, or otherwisealter the results of, employment relatedtests on the basis of race,” when it re- jects the results of such tests because of the race of the successful candidates?
iiTABLE OF CONTENTSPageQUESTIONS PRESENTED.................................. iTABLE OF AUTHORITIES................................... iiiINTEREST OF
AMICI CURIAE
........................... 1STATEMENT OF THE CASE................................ 3SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT....................... 6 ARGUMENT........................................................... 7I. THE LAW CREATED BY THE LOWERCOURTS WILL ENCOURAGE EMPLOY-ERS TO THROW OUT RACE-NEUTRALTESTS AND OTHER CRITERIA WHEN-EVER THEY PRODUCE RACIAL DIS-PARITIES..................................................... 10II. PETITIONERS’ READING OF TITLE VIIPROVIDES EMPLOYERS THE PROPERINCENTIVES.............................................. 12CONCLUSION....................................................... 14
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