What is In 2009, a case claiming "reverse discrimination? It is discrimination against a majority group rather than a minority reverse group in general in the United States this would be white employees or applicants. Is reverse discrimination wrong? We protect many different minority groups within the United States, but low do we, and how should we, protect the majority group? At what point does the protection of minority groups cross over to discrimination against the majority? The case that brought back discussions about reverse discrimination was Ricci v. DeStefano, 129 s.Ct. 2658 (2009), 51 and it renewed the discussion of race-based decision making in employment. While there are many nuances to the case and ultimately to the Supreme Court decision, the end result was that reverse discrimination was deemed to have occurred in this case. The basic issue is that a written promotion exam for firefighters was considered N1-12 by the city of New Haven, Connecticut, to be discriminatory when no Black and only one Hispanic test taker passed the exam. As a result, the city threw the entire exam out due to disparate impact (we will discuss this term in Chapter 3) and didn't promote anyone.The firefighters who scored highest on the exam sued based on reverse discrimination. Accord- ing to the local newspaper, the justices concluded that some of the city's arguments justify ing its actions to the high court "are blatantly contradicted by the record" and found that the city "turned a blind eye to evidence supporting the exam's validity.