BROWN v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 95 C 1890.

8 F.Supp.2d 1095 (1998)

Ernest T. BROWN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

June 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Benson Futterman, Futterman & Howard, Chtd., Chicago, IL, Lesley A. Redman, Kenneth N. Flaxman, P.C., Chicago, IL, Kenneth N. Flaxman, Kenneth N. Flaxman, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Ernest Brown, David Byrd, Samuel E. Harris, Vance Kimber, plaintiffs.

James D. Holzhauer, Jeffrey Scott Piell, Angela K. Dorn, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, Eileen B. Libby, City of Chicago, Joseph Robert Lipton, Law Department, Corporation Counsel, Chicago, IL, for City of Chicago, defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Did the defendant City of Chicago ("City") discriminate against minority Chicago police sergeants when it decided to make promotions to the rank of lieutenant based on an examination which the City developed with the acknowledged intention of avoiding an adverse impact on minorities? This case continues a series of attacks on successive attempts by the City to make police...

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