Blake v. Ewers

How courts have described this case

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• Passing rates were 25% for Blacks, 10% for Spanish-surnamed individuals, and 65% for all others
• “[T]he remedial approach ... [of the decree] cannot be fully effective without the cooperation of the appointing authorities in the various police forces.”
• district court should mandate hiring of those in preferential pool as compared to others by ratio of 1:1,1:2, or 1:3
• district court should mandate hiring of those in preferential pool as compared to others by ratio of 1:1, 1:2, or 1:3
• Boston police department ordered to make subsequent appointments to department from a priority pool of eligible minority applicants until priority pool had been exhausted
• employment rate disparity of 7.1 to 1, passing rate disparities of 6.5 to 1 and 2.6 to 1, respectively, for hispanics and blacks

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).