Legal Opinion

Briggs v. North Shore Sanitary District

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided January 9, 1996No. 95 C 4609PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff Hope Briggs brings this six-count Second Amended Complaint against the North Shore Sanitary District (“NSSD”), four of its employees, and a member of its Board of Trustees. 1 Presently before this court is the defendants’ motion to dismiss, and for the reasons set forth below, the motion is granted in part and denied in part.

I. Background

Briggs, an African-American woman, applied for a position as an analytical chemist at NSSD in September 1993. Despite allegedly being told that she would not enjoy working at the facility because of the…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  3. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. City of St. Louis v. PraprotnikSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  5. Griffin v. BreckenridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971

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3Cited by6 opinions

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  4. Anderson v. CornejoDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2003
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