Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Chicago State College
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 19, 1969No. 68 C 1963PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DECKER, District Judge.
The plaintiff Lewis is a Negro associate professor at Chicago State College, an Illinois college supported by public funds. In 1967 and 1968, the Department of Business Education recommended that he be promoted to full professor, but the appropriate faculty committee and the school’s administration declined to do so.
Lewis has now instituted this civil rights action, claiming that the college and its governing officers discriminate against Negro faculty members in violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3). Plaintiff asks this court to promote him to a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Daly v. PedersenDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1967
- Donnelly v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1955
- Garrard Johnson v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1960
- Lombardo v. Board of Higher Education of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1963
3Cited by19 opinions
- Geraldine POWELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Et Al., Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Clark v. WhitingCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1979
- Johnson v. University of PittsburghDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1977
- Davis v. WeidnerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
- Claggett v. Wake Forest UniversityCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1997
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