Legal Opinion
James Hunt v. City of Markham, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 11, 2000No. 99-1331PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Four white police officers sued the City of Markham, a Chicago suburb, charging racial and age discrimination in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, respectively, and they now appeal from the grant of summary judgment for the defendant and the resulting dismissal of their suit. Unlike most “reverse discrimination” suits, this one does not arise out of efforts to redress historic injustices or mitigate racial tensions; it charges naked discrimination by a municipal government that is controlled by blacks, who are a majority of the…
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