CANNON v. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

No. 84 C 8063.

609 F.Supp. 1010 (1985)

Geraldine G. CANNON, Plaintiff, v. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO; Northwestern Unviersity; Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center; Southern Illinois University; University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School; The University of Chicago; and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Defendants.

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

February 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cannon, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Stuart Bernstein, Susan S. Sher, Robert T. Zielinski, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Barney Ira Cohen, Max D. Brown, Eric A. Oesterle, William T. Barker, Kirk R. Ruthenberg, Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Nina G. Stillman, Allan Lapidus, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, James T. Otis, Robert E. Arroyo, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Geraldine Cannon wants to be a physician. She applied ten years ago to seven Illinois medical schools, and each of them rejected her. Still determined to become a doctor, Cannon sued all of these schools in federal court to gain admission. Her ten-year journey through the federal judiciary has taken her through several district courts, the Seventh Circuit and the Supreme Court. Every suit she brought was...

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