The city did not discriminate against a Firefighter candidate of South Asian descent who was deemed medically unfit for service, a state judge ruled May 31.
Rickey Lall filed suit in March 2015 after two FDNY doctors found that his lungs didn’t carry enough air for him to be a firefighter, though he’d served as one on an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy.
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