Mohr v. Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees of Board of Education of City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

In 1995, Linda Mohr, a white former art teacher at Austin High School (“Austin”), in Chicago, Illinois, was dismissed from her position as an art teacher and head of department at Austin in connection with a “remediation” of the school. She was also transferred and demoted. She sued under 42 U.S.C.2000(e), et seq., and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, and won a jury verdict for race discrimination. For more factual background, see Mohr v. Chicago Sch. Reform, Bd. of Trustees, 99 F.Supp.2d 934 (N.D.Ill.2000). The losing defendants, 1 the Chicago…