Group Sotomayor advised fought job tests (AP)

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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.64c152e7546b45c5a057f8af0166ee6c.sotomayor_documents_dccd102.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=j829E.BmPdxKKMx0UNKAVQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.</p><br clear="all"/>

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