Opinion ID: 389939
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Interim Hiring from the 1975 List

Text: 8 Shortly after the intervention of BFME, plaintiffs learned of the City's plans to make immediate appointments from the list of eligible candidates generated by the 1975 exam, and moved for a preliminary injunction against such appointments. The motion came before Judge Newman, who issued an order, on consent of all parties, permitting defendants to make at any time appointments to the Bridgeport Fire Department of a number of firefighters equal to one-half the number for which the city warrants there is and will remain an immediate need and adequate funding. The order further stated that (i)n the event the Court should order a hiring plan, these appointments will be counted as part of such plan. Pursuant to this order 40 firefighters were hired commencing in October 1976. 9 In 1977 the City sought to hire additional firefighters from the 1975 list. On June 13, 1977, the parties agreed, before Judge Zampano, that the City could hire additional firefighters from that list under substantially the same conditions as those set forth in Judge Newman's order. Thereafter 44 additional firefighters were hired. 10 Of the 84 firefighters hired pursuant to the interim orders, 81 were white and three were minorities.