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On June 29, 2009, a closely divided (5-4) United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, which concerned the claims of white firefighters that they had suffered discrimination in violation of Title VII when the City of New Haven, Connecticut, threw out test results from a promotional examination that would have qualified white and Hispanic firefighters for promotion, but no African-American firefighters
