[IPAC-List] Ricci v. DeStefano - New Haven Firefighter Promotional Exam

[Lance Seberhagen]

Last week I submitted a note to the IPAC-List about amicus briefs 
submitted to the Supreme Court in "Ricci v. DeStefano."  The amicus 
briefs were sponsored by various organizations, including IPMA, SHRM, 
and EEOC/DOJ.  However, there was a brief entitled, "Brief of 
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists as Amici Curiae in Support of 
Respondents" that I mistakenly labeled as the "SIOP amicus brief."  It 
looked like SIOP's brief, but I failed to read the fine print.  A 
colleague was good enough to point this out to me.  My apologies!

What I thought was the "SIOP amicus brief" was, in fact, the amicus 
brief of just five individual I/O psychologists and their legal 
counsel.  The I/O psychologists described themselves as "elected fellows 
of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology ("SIOP") the 
division of the American Psychological Association that is responsible 
for the establishment of scientific findings and generally accepted 
professional practices in the field of personnel selection."   They 
included:

1.  Herman Aguinis, University of Colorado, Denver.
2.  Wayne Cascio, University of Colorado, Denver.
3.  Irwin Goldstein, University of Maryland, College Park.
4.  James Outtz, Outtz and Associates, Washington, DC.
5.  Sheldon Zedeck, University of California, Berkeley.

David Frederick (former Assistant to the Solicitor General, DOJ) and 
three other attorneys from the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, 
Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, DC, served as legal counsel.  Footnote 
#1 of the brief stated that "Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 37.6, 
counsel for amici represents that it authored this brief in its entirety 
and that none of the parties or their counsel, nor any other person or 
entity other than the amici or their counsel, made a monetary 
contribution intended to fund the preparation or submission of this 
brief.  Counsel for amici also represents that all parties have 
consented to the filing of this brief in the form of blanket consent 
letters filed with the Clerk."

Thus, the "Brief of Industrial-Organizational Psychologists" is not the 
SIOP brief.  As far as I know, neither SIOP nor APA has filed amicus 
brief in the Ricci case.

I/O Psychologists amicus brief
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-328_RespondentAmCuIndus-OrgPsychologists.pdf


Lance Seberhagen, Ph.D.
Seberhagen & Associates
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Vienna, VA 22182
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March 28, 2009
Lance Seberhagen wrote:


> Here are the briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in Ricci v. 

> DeStefano.  Interesting reading!

>

> IPMA amicus brief

> http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-328_RespondentAmCu4GovtEntities.pdf 

>

>

> SIOP amicus brief

> http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-328_RespondentAmCuIndus-OrgPsychologists.pdf 

>

>

> SHRM amicus brief

> http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-328_RespondentAmCuSHRM.pdf 

>

>

> United States (EEOC, DOL, DOJ) - amicus brief

> http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-328_VacaturandRemandAmCuUSA.pdf 

>

>

> All other briefs

> http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/april09.shtml#071428

>

>

> Lance Seberhagen, Ph.D.

> Seberhagen & Associates

> 9021 Trailridge Ct

> Vienna, VA 22182

> Tel 703-790-0796

> www.seberhagen.com

>

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