United States Seventh Circuit

City's policy of using date of birth to determine seniority for promotion purposes neither violates the Equal Protection Clause, nor disparate impact discrimination where plaintiff cannot show through statistics or other means that a disparate impact resulted from the policy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/12/2001
• Decided 05/24/2001
• Published 05/24/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth N. Flaxman (argued), DNA, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mardell Nereim (argued), Mara S. Georges, Office of Corp. Counsel, Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.