SIMPSON v. DART

No. 21-8028.

23 F.4th 706 (2022)

Joseph SIMPSON, et al., Plaintiffs-Petitioners, v. Thomas J. DART, et al., Defendants-Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 6, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Karsh , Michael D. Lieder , Cyrus B. Mehri , Attorneys, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, Washington, DC, Matthew J. Piers , Margaret Truesdale , Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., Chicago, IL, Marni J. Willenson , Attorney, Willenson Law, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Petitioners.

Virginia Brette Bensinger , Attorney, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL. for Defendants-Respondents Thomas J. Dart, County of Cook.

Mia Buntic , Lyle K. Henretty , Attorneys, Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Respondent Cook County Sheriff's Merit Board.

Before Easterbrook, Wood, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


Joseph Simpson applied to work as a Correctional Officer at the Cook County Department of Corrections four separate times between 2014 and 2017. The Department declined to hire him each time. Simpson believed the hiring practices underlying these rejections violated his rights—and those of other unsuccessful Black...

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