NEW HAVEN FIREFIGHTERS CASE

Ethical Subjectivist's View on the New Haven Firefighters Case

Ethical Subjectivist's View on the New Haven Firefighters Case

Acknowledging its indefensible history of racism, New Haven took great pains to ensure the test was free from bias. While Head argues that the exam contained "material not relevant to the occupation" of being a high-ranking firefighter, none of the exam questions are cited specifically or held up as an example in either the majority ruling or the dissent authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. In fact, the very question of relevance itself is subjective, and the conspicuous absence of any direct ...