Legal Opinion

Petit v. City of Chicago

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided January 31, 2002No. 90 C 4984PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HART, District Judge.

This case involves promotions within the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) and allegations that White police officers were discriminated against in the process. The promotions at issue were to the rank of sergeant and occurred from December 1988 through September 1991. It is undisputed that defendant City of Chicago “standardized” the examination scores of African-American and Hispanic candidates in a manner favorable to those candidates and that it also promoted Hispanic candidates out of the rank order that resulted from the standardization.…

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3Cited by1 opinion

Petit v. City of ChicagoDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2002