Marino v. Ortiz

Marino v. Ortiz
Marino v. Ortiz
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Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 30, 1987
Decided January 13, 1988
Full case name Evelyn Marino, et al., Petitioners v. Juan U. Ortiz et al.
Citations 484 U.S. 301 (more)
108 S. Ct. 586; 98 L. Ed. 2d 629; 1988 U.S. LEXIS 311
Prior history Court of Appeals dismissed petitioners' appeal against a settlement agreement.
Holding
Only parties to a lawsuit are eligible to appeal from the final judgment
Court membership
Case opinions
Per curiam.
Laws applied
Subchapter VI of Chapter 21 of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e [2] et seq.

Marino v. Ortiz, 484 U.S. 301 (1988) was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted from a lawsuit filed by 350 white New York City police officers that pitted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment against Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The case originated with a lawsuit filed by African American and Hispanic advocacy groups (including the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund[1]) alleging that a police sergeant's examination had a disparate impact because the percentage of African Americans and Hispanics that passed the examination was disproportionate to overall percentage. A proposed settlement was reached between the plaintiffs and the city of New York; all of the officers eligible for promotion based on their score would be promoted as well as enough additional minorities to achieve a proportional outcome.[2] The settlement was approved by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as a "consent decree" on an interim basis pending a hearing on its fairness and adequacy.

After the ruling but before the hearing, 350 white police officers filed suit in the same court alleging that the settlement had deprived them of equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment. These officers were not eligible for promotion based on their scores, but they scored at least as high as the lowest scoring minority promoted under the terms of the consent decree.[2] However, they did not seek to become party to the lawsuit that originated the settlement. The consent decree was ultimately approved, and as a result the white police officers' lawsuit was dismissed. They appealed both the dismissal of their lawsuit and the consent decree itself.

When oral arguments for the case were held in the fall of 1987, the court had only eight members. Lewis F. Powell, Jr. had retired from the court earlier in the year, the Senate had rejected Robert Bork's confirmation two months prior, and Anthony Kennedy would not be confirmed until after the decision was announced. This resulted in a gridlock 4-4 tie vote in the matter of whether the white officers were correct to file a separate suit challenging the settlement. This being the case, the lower court ruling dismissing the suit was affirmed, but no precedent was set. The court unanimously agreed that the officers could not appeal the consent decree directly, because "only parties to a lawsuit, or those that properly become parties, may appeal an adverse judgment."

Though the court's ruling did not directly address the constitutional issues raised, it foreshadowed a legal battle to come. Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to the court, promoted the minority officers' cause while at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and would later rule against white plaintiffs in a similar case, Ricci v. DeStefano, in a decision that the Supreme Court would overturn by a 5–4 vote.

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