Legal Opinion
Nichols v. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 28, 2007No. 06-2688PublishedCited by 256 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Derrick Nichols, Babatunde Owoseni, Daniel Smith, and Aaron Watson, current and former officers of the Southern Illinois University Police Department, sued Southern Illinois University (the “University”) alleging that it discriminated against them because of their race by disproportionally assigning them to work at its East St. Louis campus. Owoseni, Smith, and Nichols also alleged that the University denied them temporary upgrades to sergeant because of their race and retaliated against them for making complaints of racial discrimination. The University moved for…
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