HENRY v. MILWAUKEE COUNTY

No. 07-2534.

539 F.3d 573 (2008)

Ersol L. HENRY and Terri J. Lewis, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 20, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Graf Radtke (argued), Gillick, Wicht, Gillick & Graf, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Timothy R. Karaskiewicz (argued), William J. Domina, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

In 1997, Milwaukee County's Juvenile Detention Center instituted a policy that required each unit of the facility to be staffed at all times by at least one officer of the same sex as the detainees housed on that unit. Because there were far more male units than female units at the facility, this policy had the effect of reducing the number of shifts available for female officers. Ersol Henry and Terri Lewis, both female officers at the facility...

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