U.S. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 91-3486.

978 F.2d 325 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee, and Retirement Board of the Policemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund of the City of Chicago, Walter Knorr, Richard J. Jones, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1992.

As Amended October 26, and November 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Foreman, U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Criminal Div., Chicago, Ill., John R. Dunne, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mark L. Gross (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Michael G. Cleveland (argued), Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, David R. Kugler, Kugler, DeLeo & D'Arco, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Mardell Nereim (argued), Kelly R. Welsh, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Benna R. Solomon, Office of the Corp. Counsel, Appeals Div., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Sixteen years after the district court first ruled that the Chicago Police Department had discriminated against women, blacks, and Hispanics in violation of civil rights laws, the City of Chicago ("the City") has yet to make whole the victims of its unlawful discrimination.

In 1976, in a case brought against the City by the United States of America, District Judge Prentice H. Marshall held that the Chicago Police Department had knowingly...

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