Consistent and uniform application of promotion rules defeats race discrimination claim.

The article discusses the court case Lyons v. City of Alexandria. It reports, an African-American firefighter who waited five months after becoming eligible for placement in the department's paramedic internship failed to show that the placement of three later-certified white firefighters ahead of him was due to race-based discrimination, the Fourth Circuit ruled, affirming summary judgment against his Title VII of the Civil Rights Act claim.