Legal Opinion
United States v. City of Northlake, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 28, 1991No. 90-1822PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
In the 1980s, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice filed fourteen lawsuits on behalf of the United States against small Chicago-area communities. The suits challenged a pervasive system of discrimination that left the city payrolls in those cities virtually bereft of any minority employees. Among other things, the United States challenged the requirement that city workers, such as police officers, live within the municipal boundaries of the community for one year prior to notification that the job-entrance examination would be offered. One of these…
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