They may have.
And it probably was very good news for
the individuals that brought the suit against the
city.

But this was not an easy one.

The City that declined to use the test given
because they thought a suit would be brought against
them on grounds of racial discrimination because the results
of the test were badly skewed.

The Supreme Court decided that was not necessarily true.
(That the city should have dropped the exam because they were bound
to get sued)

And there is even more.

These cases are usually more complex than appear on
the surface. The legal questions are not what they appear to
be in many of these cases.
They usually make my head hurt.

And 4 out of 9 justices, her liberal "brethren", were with her.