Legal Opinion
Lloyd Bryant, Desmond Butler, Doris Byrd v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 14, 2000No. 99-1272, 99-3475PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs are forty-four African-American or Latino present or former sergeants of the Chicago Police Department. Plaintiffs failed to be promoted to lieutenant after taking the 1994 police lieutenant examination. Seven hundred sixty-five police sergeants took the examination of which 184 (24%) were African-American and 55 (7%) were Hispanic. The Police Department made 108 rank-order promotions based on the 1994 examination, granting promotions to those officers who obtained the highest 108 scores on the examination. Of the 108 officers promoted, five were…
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