Johnny Ray Welch v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Houston Circuit Court: CC-08-1694.62)

How courts have described this case

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• applying lost chance doctrine to firefighters who lost chance at promotion
• “Perhaps what we have said will lead the litigants to resolve these remaining issues (and the 18 remaining . . . claims) amicably rather than slug it out again in the courtroom. We hope so; this dispute is approaching its [second] decade.”’
• “[I]f a person would have had a 25% chance of promotion from lieutenant to captain, then preventing that person from becoming a lieutenant should lead to a remedy equal to 100% of the benefits of being a lieutenant plus 25% of the incremental benefits of being a captain.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).