Blog Archive : December 2000

The Olympia Fields Board of Trustees rejected an application for approval of a state-licensed day care home as inconsistent with local zoning ordinances concerning the uses of residential property. Consistent with a 1995 decision, which struck down the Village of Flossmoor’s similar attempt to bar home day care licensed by the state, the homeowners argue, and the court agrees, that local ...

The Olympia Fields Board of Trustees rejected an application for approval of a state-licensed day care home as inconsistent with local zoning ordinances concerning the uses of residential property. Consistent with a 1995 decision, which struck down the Village of Flossmoor’s similar attempt to bar home day care licensed by the state, the homeowners argue, and the court agrees, that local ...

Under a U.S. E.E.O.C. mediation program, charging parties and employers engage in voluntary efforts to settle charges of employment discrimination without litigation. Because defendants frequently have counsel, the Chicago Lawyers Committee represents claimants at mediation, securing thousands of dollars in compensation for victims of discrimination, plus reinstatements, accommodations for disa...

CLC obtains a precedent of national significance: that testers have standing to sue for employment discrimination, even where the testers themselves did not seek employment.