Lloyd Bryant, Desmond Butler, Doris Byrd v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• directing court to treat unrelated claims as if they had been raised in “separate lawsuits” and not award fees
• finding percentage of merit- based promotions less discriminatory when merit-selection results were known
• when government breached plea agreement, specific performance was appropriate remedy
• “It would be unrealistic to require more than a reasonable measure of job performance. It therefore is a matter of reasonableness, except in cases in which the plaintiff can show that the employer was using the practice as a mere pretext for discrimination.”
• “It would be unrealistic to require more than a reasonable measure of job performance. It therefore is a matter of reasonableness, except in cases in which the plaintiff can show that the employer was using the practice as a mere pretext for discrimination.”
• minority sergeants challenged 1994 promotions to lieutenant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).