MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS ASS'N v. CITY OF SOUTH BEND

No. 85-2778.

801 F.2d 964 (1986)

MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH BEND, on behalf of its members and all others similarly situated, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, a municipal corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Crutchfield, San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert C. Rosenfeld, City Atty., South Bend, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and MAROVITZ, Senior District Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

I.

The plaintiffs are several black police officers of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The defendants are the City of South Bend and various municipal officials. On November 23, 1981 the plaintiffs brought a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana alleging that the defendants had discriminated against them on the basis of their race in violation of the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the...

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