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WATKINS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 97 C 2662.

992 F.Supp. 971 (1998)

Shirley WATKINS, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant.

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

January 22, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Grant Brown, Shannon & Brown, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Mary Leone Smith, Joanne Simboli Hodge, Patricia Therese Bergeson, City of Chicago, Law Dept. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Background

The plaintiff, Shirley Watkins, sued the defendant, the City of Chicago ("City"), under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1991, Ms. Watkins, an African-American woman, applied for a position with the City as a Chicago police officer. The City has a stated policy of not hiring individuals who have been convicted of a felony within ten years of applying...

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