WEBB v. CITY OF CHESTER, ILL.

No. 86-2946.

813 F.2d 824 (1987)

Debra WEBB, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF CHESTER, ILLINOIS, the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of Chester, Illinois, and City of Chester Police Department, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 6, 1987.

As Amended March 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen W. Thomson, Reed Armstrong Gorman & Coffey, Edwardsville, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Marilyn Sue Sachtleben, Runge & Gumbel, P.C., Collinsville, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, WOOD, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Debra Webb was hired as a police officer in Chester, Illinois, and shortly thereafter she was fired. She subsequently brought a sex discrimination suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) against defendants City of Chester, Illinois, the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of Chester, Illinois, and the Chester Police Department.1 At the conclusion of a jury trial, the jury returned a verdict...

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