Legal Opinion
Auriemma v. Rice
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 1990No. 89-1479PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge,1
joined by CUMMINGS, POSNER, COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE and MANION, Circuit Judges.
This case was brought by eighteen white officers of the Chicago police department who were demoted by defendant Fred Rice, a black former superintendent of the Chicago police department. Plaintiffs claim they were demoted because of their race in violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and 1985(3).
In the original and now-vacated opinion, a divided panel relied on the doctrine of qualified immunity to reverse the district court…
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3Cited by127 opinions
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