WASHINGTON—On Aug. 1, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington dismissed a 44-year-old consent decree that had curbed civil service testing.
Judge Reggie Walton’s dismissal came half a year after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) first sought to end the decree. They argued in Angelo Luevano v. Charles Ezell that it was racially discriminatory and that it kept them from assessing job applicants effectively.
