JONES v. REAGAN

No. 81-2918.

696 F.2d 551 (1983)

Alonzo JONES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ronald REAGAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Joyce, Ltd. Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Kevin J. Egan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dan K. Webb, U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 1, 1983.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the dismissal for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), of a complaint alleging that the plaintiffs, black noncommissioned officers in the United States Army Reserve, were transferred from the unit to which they belonged in a Chicago suburb to other units in the Chicago area solely because they are black and the...

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