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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 85-2245.

798 F.2d 969 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal of Pete O'SULLIVAN, et al., Petitioning-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 14, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn K. Mitchell, Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for City of Chicago.

William F. Fitzpatrick, Callahan Fitzpatrick Hirst & Lakoma, Oak Lawn, Ill., for petitioning-intervenors.

Before CUDAHY and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 26, 1986.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Pete O'Sullivan and fourteen other white candidates for firefighter positions with the City of Chicago (the "Applicants") appeal from an order of the district court denying them leave to intervene in this lawsuit. We affirm.

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This lawsuit was commenced in 1973, when the United States filed a complaint against the City of Chicago (the "City"), alleging that...

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