Legal Opinion
Lynda Fallon v. State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 1989No. 87-2533PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Lynda Fallon sued the State of Illinois under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1 Following a bench trial, the district court found that the jobs of Veterans Service Officer (“VSO”) and Veterans Service Officer Associate (“VSOA”) (currently all VSOs are males and all VSOAs are females) were substantially equal within the meaning of the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), that female VSOAs were paid less than the male VSOs, and that no factors other than sex justified the pay differential. Based on that finding, the district court concluded…
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