AFRO-AMERICAN, ETC. v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

No. 81 C 4004.

553 F.Supp. 664 (1982)

AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE LEAGUE, Renault Robinson, Howard Saffold, and Jerry Crawley, Plaintiffs, v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, CHICAGO LODGE NO. 7, John M. Dineen, and City of Chicago, Defendants. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, CHICAGO LODGE NO. 7, Counter-Plaintiffs, v. AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE LEAGUE, Renault Robinson, Howard Saffold, and Jerry Crawley, Counter-Defendants. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, CHICAGO LODGE NO. 7, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Raymond ARMSTRONG, William C. Bigby, Ocie Brown, Phillip Bryant, Ronald Crawford, Robert P. Ervin, Booker T. Moore, Jimmy Rivers, Albert Rowe, Charles Sias, and James Smith, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

December 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Hallock, Thomas P. Coffey, Philip S. Beck, Robin P. Charleston, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., Donald E. Scott, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs, counterdefendants and third-party defendants.

Marvin Gittler, Asher, Goodstein, Pavalon, Gittler, Greenfield & Segall, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for defendant, counterplaintiff and third-party plaintiff Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7.

Stanley Garber, Corp. Counsel, Edwin A. Gausselin, Robert L. Janega, Asst. Corp. Counsel, City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for defendant City of Chicago.


OPINION

BUA, District Judge.

Facts

Plaintiffs, the Afro-American Police League (AAPL), an organization made up primarily of black police officers of the Chicago Police Department, and three black members of the Department who are officials of AAPL, filed the instant lawsuit against the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the collective bargaining representative for all Chicago police officers under the rank of sergeant, John M. Dineen, the...

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