Legal Opinion
Porter v. Pipefitters Ass'n Local Union 597
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 20, 2016No. 12 C 9844PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SARA L. ELLIS, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs Duane Porter, Kenneth Black, Ronald Bouie, Ricky Brown, Samuel Clark, *899Frank Craddieth, Donald Gayles, and Steven Wilson, African American journeyman pipefitters who belonged to Defendant Pi-pefitters Association Local Union 597 (“Local 597”), claim that they and other African American pipefitters worked comparatively fewer hours than their non-African American counterparts due to Local 597’s inequitable job assignment systems. They filed this suit against Local 597, alleging intentional and disparate impact discrimination…
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