CULVER v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

No. 01-1555.

277 F.3d 908 (2002)

Scott CULVER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and United States of America, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 15, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly A. Sutherland (argued), Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Linda Uliss Burke (argued), Miriam Horwitz, Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for defendants-appellees.

Linda Edwards (argued), Dennis J. Dimsey, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for intervenor-appellee.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A class action suit was brought on behalf of white males who claimed to have been discriminated against in hiring by the Milwaukee police department. The district court granted the defendants' motion to decertify the class and having done so dismissed the suit because the class representative's own claim was conceded to be moot. A properly certified class action survives the mootness of the original...

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