BAKER v. ELMWOOD DISTRIBUTING, INC.

No. 90-2466.

940 F.2d 1013 (1991)

Larry BAKER, Robert C. Campbell, George Ditola, John Kennedy and John Zochowski, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ELMWOOD DISTRIBUTING, INC., City and Suburban Distributors-Illinois, Inc., Franklin D. Raines, and Vierk Distributing Co., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Letvin (argued), Letvin & Stein, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Judson H. Miner, Jeffrey Cummings (argued), Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Louis R. Hegeman, Gould & Ratner, William G. Hutul, James R. Sneider, Sneider & Troy, Chicago, Ill., William A. Vlasek, William W. Winterhoff, Winterhoff & Associates, Lansing, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and WOOD, Jr., and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


BAUER, Chief Judge.

This reverse discrimination suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 has been kicking around the federal courts for over eight and a half years. In what we hope is the end of the line, we herein affirm the district court's entry of summary judgment against the Plaintiffs-Appellants. The district court held that their claims are foreclosed by Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, 491 U.S. 164, 109 S.Ct. 2363, 105 L.Ed...

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