•Springfield Branch of NAACP v. City of Springfield, 139 F.Supp.2d 990 (C.D. IL 2001)
Jan 01, 2000OUTCOME: Motion denied.
Civil rights organization brought Title VII and § 1981 action against city, alleging race and sex discrimination in tests used to fill vacancies in city's fire and police departments. Organization move ... d for preliminary injunction to prevent city from hiring white firefighters from among those who had passed written portion of challenged test. The District Court held that: (1) organization lacked standing to assert sex discrimination claim on behalf of women who were not organization members; (2) organization established prima facie Title VII disparate impact case as to firefighter's test; (3) city established job relatedness of firefighter test's reading/listening comprehension and math components; (4) police department test could not constitute “equally valid alternative” to firefighter test; (5) organization failed to establish inadequate legal remedy in absence of injunction; and (6) balance of harms and public interest factors weighed against injunction.
