Legal Opinion
Chicago Firefighters Local 2 v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 3, 2001No. 00-1272, 00-1312, 00-1314 and 00-1330PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated cases, one dating back to 1987, were brought on behalf of white firefighters who complain that their right to the equal protection of the laws has been infringed by affirmative-action promotions of black and Hispanic firefighters made by the Chicago Fire Department. (One of the plaintiffs also 'has a Title VII claim of “race norming.”) The district court rendered judgment for the City after a bench trial. We affirmed a similar judgment in McNamara v. City of Chicago, 138 F.3d 1219 (7th Cir.1998), a challenge by other white Chicago firefighters to the…
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