United States Seventh Circuit

A municipality is not race norming, per se, if it "bands" scores on employee promotion exams for affirmative action purposes, even though the "banding" works to the advantage of a particular racial or ethnic group.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2001
• Decided 05/03/2001
• Published 05/03/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, COFFEY, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen B. Horwitz (argued), Sugarman & Horwitz, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence Rosenthal (argued), Mardell, Nereim, Office of Corp. Counsel, Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.