Legal Opinion
Cygnar v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 4, 1989No. 87-1181PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs-appellants, 13 Chicago police officers, appeal the district court’s grant of judgment notwithstanding the ver-diet (JNOV) in favor of the defendants-ap-pellees, City of Chicago, Fred Rice, and Raleigh Mathis. The court’s JNOV order overturned the lion’s share of a jury’s $4.29 million verdict finding that the plaintiffs had been transferred from the City's Office of Municipal Investigations to assignments within the Chicago police department because of their race and political affiliation. The plaintiffs further appeal the court’s entry of a directed…
2Cases cited64 opinions
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3Cited by126 opinions
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- Fred Honaker v. Gary Smith, Mayor, Individually and as Mayor of the Village of Lovington and as Fire Chief of the Lovington Fire DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
- Auriemma v. RiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
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