AMERICAN NURSES' ASS'N v. STATE OF ILL.

No. 85-1766.

783 F.2d 716 (1986)

AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edith Barnett, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James I. Rubin, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 4, 1986.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This class action charges the State of Illinois with sex discrimination in employment, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The named plaintiffs are two associations of nurses plus 21 individuals, mostly but not entirely female, who work for the state in jobs such as nursing...

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