Legal Opinion
Bennett v. Tucker
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 11, 1987No. 86-2628PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
In Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Company, 455 U.S. 422, 102 S.Ct. 1148, 71 L.Ed.2d 265 (1982), the Supreme Court held that the Illinois Fair Employment Commission’s refusal to process a discrimination claim, solely because the Commission had failed to act on the claim within the time provided by state law, deprived a claimant of his property without due process. Eleven months after the Supreme Court decided Logan, plaintiffs Bennett and Cunningham filed this § 1983 action. The plaintiffs alleged that the refusal of the Illinois Department of Human Rights (the successor agency…
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