The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1985
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The Justice Department, maintaining that a federal court misinterpreted a 1984 Supreme Court reverse-discrimination decision, filed a brief on behalf of five white Massachusetts police officers seeking to challenge the promotion of a black. In the latest of a series of attempts to broaden the application of the high court’s decision, the department’s civil rights division urged the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston to reverse a lower court’s ruling denying the challenge by the white policemen.
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