United States Seventh Circuit

In white firefighters' suit against a city claiming that it failed to promote them within its fire department because of their race, summary judgment in favor of the city is affirmed where: 1) the city, through its fire chief, has set forth legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for declining to promote the plaintiffs to deputy and/or assistant chief; and 2) plaintiffs failed to produce sufficient evidence to create a genuine issue of fact regarding whether the reasons were pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/28/2009
• Decided 03/12/2010
• Published 03/12/2010

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth N. Flaxman, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie A. Bruch, Edie P. Steinberg, O'Halloran, Kosoff, Geitner & Cook, Northbrook, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.