United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for city in a suit by police officers alleging that a 1994 test for promotion to sergeant had a disparate impact that discriminated based on race is affirmed where the officers did not demonstrate that Chicago had an alternative method available to evaluate the merit of potential sergeants, or that the city refused to adopt such a method, by February 22, 1997, the date of the contested promotions.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/01/2006
• Decided 11/16/2006
• Published 11/16/2006

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and MANION and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Kerrie Maloney Laytin (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.