Legal Opinion
City of Cairo v. Fair Employment Practices Commission
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided May 13, 1974No. 72-262PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN
delivered the opinion of the court:
The Fan Employment Practices Commission, hereinafter referred to as FEPC, on the petition of Julius Oats, Sr., found the City of Cairo’s policy of excluding persons with arrest records from employment on the City’s police force to be a racially discriminatory hiring practice forbidden by section 3(a) of the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 48, par. 853(a)). The circuit court of Alexander County reversed the FEPC. Oats and the FEPC appeal from the judgment of the circuit court. On cross-appeal the…
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