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Two groups question Patrick, Coakley over bias lawsuit

Letter asks why MCAD retracted its brief in case

By Maria Cramer

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 18, 2012

An about face by an agency charged with protecting civil rights has sparked a flurry of questions from minority leaders, who say the Governor owes them answers. In a letter sent this week, the NAACP and an organization representing minority police called on Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley to explain what role they might have played in a move by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination to withdraw a legal brief it had filed supporting police trying to sue the state for a promotional exam they say is biased against minorities.

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