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U.S. v. CITY OF NORTHLAKE, ILL.

No. 90-1822.

942 F.2d 1164 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF NORTHLAKE, ILLINOIS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1991.

Rehearing Denied October 28, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Flessner, Ira H. Raphaelson, Asst. U.S. Attys., Office of U.S. Atty., Criminal Div., Nancy K. Needles, AUSA Office of U.S. Atty., Civ. Div., Appellate Section, Chicago, Ill., John R. Dunne, David K. Flynn, Miriam R. Eisenstein (argued), Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Samuel V.P. Banks, Edward B. Miller (argued), Robert J. Weber, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS, WOOD, Jr. and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

In the 1980s, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice filed fourteen lawsuits on behalf of the United States against small Chicago-area communities. The suits challenged a pervasive system of discrimination that left the city payrolls in those cities virtually bereft of any minority employees. Among other things, the United States challenged the requirement that city workers, such as police officers, live within the municipal...

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