United States v. City of Chicago

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

This suit was originally filed against the City of Chicago by the United States government in 1973, a long, long time ago. The suit alleged that the City had discriminated on the basis of race and gender in hiring into and promoting within its Police Department in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. In January of 1976, the district court found that the City had followed an explicit policy of refusing to hire and promote women on the same basis as men, and ordered the United States to commence discovery necessary to seek…