Legal Opinion
Petit v. City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 11, 1998No. 90 C 4984PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HART, District Judge.
This lawsuit concerns the Chicago, Illinois Police Department’s 1985-1988 sergeant promotional examination (the “1985-88 examination”) that produced a 1988 eligibility list used between December 1988 and September 1991 in promoting 458 patrol officers to the rank of sergeant. The plaintiffs in this case are 326 individual officers and Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police (the “FOP”), 1 a union representing Chicago police officers below the rank of sergeant. The individual plaintiffs claim that defendant City of Chicago 2 committed racial or…
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