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BRYANT v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Nos. 99-1272, 99-3475.

200 F.3d 1092 (2000)

Lloyd BRYANT, Desmond Butler, Doris Byrd, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 14, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Flaxman (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Brian L. Crowe, Joshua D. Davidson (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee in No. 99-1272.

James D. Holzhauer, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Joshua D. Davidson (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee in No. 99-3475.

Before WOOD, JR., COFFEY, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are forty-four African-American or Latino present or former sergeants of the Chicago Police Department. Plaintiffs failed to be promoted to lieutenant after taking the 1994 police lieutenant examination. Seven hundred sixty-five police sergeants took the examination of which 184 (24%) were African-American and 55 (7%) were Hispanic. The Police Department made 108 rank-order promotions based on the 1994 examination, granting...

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