Legal Opinion
Thomas v. City of Evanston
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 26, 1985No. 80 C 4803PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, District Judge:
This is a Title VII class action in which the plaintiffs challenge the City of Evans-ton’s (“the City”) use of physical agility tests to screen job applicants for the Police Department (“the Department”). These tests allegedly worsened the female applicants' chances of being hired. Before being elevated to the Seventh Circuit, Judge Joel M. Flaum certified a class consisting of “all women who, from October 2, 1976 until the present, have been adversely affected by the physical agility test____” The parties have now completed discovery and have…
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