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BIGBY v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 84-2284.

766 F.2d 1053 (1985)

William C. BIGBY, et al., Plaintiffs, and Maurice Thoele, et al., Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO and Chicago Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Gubbins, Chicago, Ill., for intervening plaintiffs-appellants.

Mary K. Rochford, Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A group of black police sergeants brought suit against the City of Chicago under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., alleging that the City had discriminated against them by refusing to promote them to lieutenant, because they had failed a lieutenants' examination which they contended was racially biased. A group of white and Hispanic police sergeants was allowed to intervene in the suit, to...

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