Andrade v. Nadel’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · Graham v. Richardson · Welsh II v. United States · Examining Bd. of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors v. Flores De Otero · Sugarman v. Dougall
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“[O]n most civil service examinations, there is a pronounced 'bunching' ( i.e., a large percentage of the test takers obtain very similar scores). [I]t can be assumed that rescission of the five or 10 point veterans' preference in the case of most of 1,300 employee [veterans receiving probationary appointments in New York City in a specific year would] result in their receiving a list number that has not yet been reached for appointment, and . . . consequently [in their losing] their jobs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here can be no doubt about the strength and depth of New York’s commitment to a veterans’ preference policy. This is demonstrated by more than a century of granting such preferences and by the fact that this provision has been frozen into the State Constitution itself. A determination that the entire veterans’ preference policy is void would be unreasonable, and might have sudden and highly adverse effects on the New York Civil Service System____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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