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BROWN v. WASHINGTON

No. 87 C 125.

661 F.Supp. 1011 (1987)

Elmer BROWN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Harold WASHINGTON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

June 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Gubbins, Chicago, for plaintiffs.

Jonathan Siner & Arthur Christie, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are a group of Chicago police personnel who claim their 1984 transfers from Chicago's Office of Municipal Investigation ("OMI") are actionable under two provisions of the post-Civil War civil rights statutes. Plaintiffs assert those transfers were motivated by their race (they are white) or their politics (they were transferred by former OMI Executive Director Raleigh Mathis ("Mathis"), who...

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