Legal Opinion
William C. Bigby, and Maurice Thoele, Intervening v. City of Chicago and Chicago Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 1, 1985No. 84-2284PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A group of black police sergeants brought suit against the City of Chicago under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., alleging that the City had discriminated against them by refusing to promote them to lieutenant, because they had failed a lieutenants’ examination which they contended was racially biased. A group of white and Hispanic police sergeants was allowed to intervene in the suit, to challenge the exam on a different ground: that it simply was not related to what a lieutenant does, and therefore violated the intervenors’ rights…
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- Meyer v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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