GRAHEK v. CITY OF ST. PAUL, MINN.

No. 95-2399.

84 F.3d 296 (1996)

John GRAHEK, John Swenson, and Brent Nagle, Appellants, v. The CITY OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA; William Finney, Chief of Police; and Mark Robertson, Director of Personnel, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Gehan, St. Paul, Minnesota, argued for appellants.

Gerald Thomas Hendrickson, St. Paul, Minnesota, argued for appellees (Timothy E. Marx, City Attorney for St. Paul, Minnesota, on the brief).

Before BOWMAN and LOKEN, Circuit Judges, and WOLLE, District Judge.


WOLLE, District Judge.

John Grahek, John Swenson, and Brent Nagle, three white males, applied to become police officers for the City of St. Paul in 1992. Their gender and race discrimination complaint alleges the defendant city, its police chief, and its personnel director violated their rights under federal and state law by using hiring procedures that allegedly favored women and minority applicants. On the threshold issue of standing, the district court

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