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COOK v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 98-3268.

192 F.3d 693 (1999)

Junerous COOK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip C. Stahl (argued), Grippo & Elden, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Brian L. Crowe, Office of Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Joshua D. Davidson (argued), Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and COFFEY and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

In 1983, a consent decree was entered in a class action that had been brought against the City of Chicago complaining about the discharge of tenured City employees without due process of law. The decree gave a member of the class named Junerous Cook preference in future hiring for a job called "Director." Later that year Cook was notified in a letter from the City's personnel commissioner that there were no Director vacancies at present but that...

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