Legal Opinion
William C. Bigby, and Maurice Thoele, Intervening v. City of Chicago and Chicago Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 25, 1991No. 89-2194PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
In 1980, William Bigby, as class representative for twenty-three black police sergeants, raised a challenge under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the 1977 test used by the Chicago Police Department to determine eligibility for promotion to lieutenant, alleging that the test was racially biased. The district court permitted Maurice Thoele, as class representative for 53 white and Hispanic sergeants, to intervene in the case.
Following a bench trial, the district court found for the Bigby plaintiffs on their Title VII claim and against the Thoele inter-venors on…
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