Brown v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, J.

On June 30,1998, after trial on the issue of liability prosecuted by 44 minority sergeants who took the 1994 Chicago police lieutenant promotion examination (which the parties agree had an adverse impact on minorities), this court ruled that that examination was content valid, but that defendant City of Chicago violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et. seq., by failing to utilize an equally available, less discriminatory method under which 20% of lieutenant promotions would be based on merit rather than rank order test scores.…