Blog Archive : May 2011
Chris Furuya posted a blog on May 23, 2011
Sun Hee Choi of the Illinois University College of Law has been named as the Alfred C. Tisdahl Memorial PILI Intern. Choi, who will be at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee from late May through early August, will be volunteering with the Fair Housing Project and the Employment Opportunity Project.
Choi has previously served in the Edward Coles Fellowship at the Human Rights Co...
Chris Furuya posted a blog on May 20, 2011
African-American plaintiffs represented by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee won another court victory in the Lewis v. City of Chicago race discrimination class action, challenging the City of Chicago’s use of a discriminatory test and cut-off score in hiring the City’s firefighters. After a victory in the Supreme Court in May 2010, the case was sent to the Court of Appeals, wher...
Chris Furuya posted a blog on May 13, 2011
US Court of Appeals issued a ruling supporting the previous Supreme Court decision concerning Lewis vs. City of Chicago, which alleged discriminatory practices in hiring firefighters. The case now goes back to the trial judge, who, after additional proceedings, will enter an order to hire African-Americans from the class and to calculate and distribute damages to be shared among class members.
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