It is not immoral or illegal to stand up for yourselves.
Twelve white Buffalo firefighters will get an average of $230,430 each in back pay, pension benefits and damages—a total of almost $2.77 million—for emotional distress because the City of Buffalo illegally passed them over for promotions, a state judge has ruled.
The 12 men sued the city in 2007, contending that the city illegally allowed two promotional lists to expire because minority firefighters had fared poorly on civil service exams.
The case was affected by a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said city officials cannot void the results of civil service exams simply because they are afraid of being sued.