Cooper v. Bombela

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

This class action (the plaintiff class having been certified on November 5, 1998) arises from recent changes in the procedures used by the Illinois Department of Human Rights (“Department”) to evaluate discrimination claims. Class representatives Ricky Cooper, Anna Marie Klups and Chitunda Tillman (because their claims are identical except in one immaterial respect, for simplicity this opinion will most frequently speak of the entire class by personifying it only in terms of “Cooper”) assert 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”) claims…