There is no activity on the case until 1981, when a group of minority HPD officers file a motion to intervene into Cintron v. Vaughan alleging discriminatory promotion practices. The Guardians had filed a set of complaints with the chief in 1979 concerning these issues, which were never adequately addressed. They ask for an injunction preventing all promotions until the problem is solved. Nothing came of this spate of litigation, and the motion would later be withdrawn in 1985.