Scope and Contents From the File: This case, much like United States of America [Davis] v. City and County of San Francisco [firefighters], concerns an allegation of discriminatory hiring practices in a fire department - here, the City of Berkeley. It considers the issue of a proportional racial hiring quota, based on the percentages of each of population in the City of Berkeley, and proposes hiring according to such a quota to ensure equal opportunity for promotion to populations underrrepresented in fire department...