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CITY OF CAIRO v. FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRAC. COM.

No. 72-262.

21 Ill. App.3d 358 (1974)

315 N.E.2d 344

THE CITY OF CAIRO, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION et al. — (JULIUS V. OATS, SR., Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Appellee.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

May 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.R. McMahan, of Lord, Bissell & Brook, of Chicago (Michael P. Seng and Margaret Stapleton, both of Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., of counsel), for Julius V. Oats, Sr.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (Paul J. Bargiel, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Fair Employment Practices Commission.

John G. Holland and George J. Kiriakos, both of Cairo, for City of Cairo.

Judgment reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The Fair Employment Practices Commission, hereinafter referred to as FEPC, on the petition of Julius Oats, Sr., found the City of Cairo's policy of excluding persons with arrest records from employment on the City's police force to be a racially discriminatory hiring practice forbidden by section 3(a) of the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 48...

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