MINKUS v. METROPOLITAN SANITARY DIST.

No. 78-1401.

600 F.2d 80 (1979)

Herbert MINKUS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The METROPOLITAN SANITARY DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO ("MSD"); Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago; Bart T. Lynam, Individually and as General Superintendent of the MSD; Allen S. Lavin, Individually and as Attorney for the MSD and Donald R. Morrison, Individually and as Director of Personnel for the MSD, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin J. Rosenblum, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Ina S. Winston, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and PELL and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether the district court properly granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff, Herbert Minkus, is an Orthodox Jew who was unable to take a November, 1974, civil service examination administered by defendant Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago because of his religious practices. The examination for the position of Maintenance Laborer A was scheduled to be given on...

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