William C. Bigby, and Maurice Thoele, Intervening v. City of Chicago and Chicago Police Department

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• holding that there is no constitutional right, unrelated to racial or other discrimination, to rational test for promotion to a higher rung in civil service of state or municipality
• holding that there is no constitutional right, unrelated to racial or other discrimination, to rational test for promotion to a higher rung in civil service of state or municipality
• stating that an occupational liberty claim “rest[s] on the idea that stigmatization may prevent [an employee] from getting another position in the same line of work”
• finding that Illinois law created an expectation of a legitimate test “but, as the Illinois courts have held, not so firm and definite an expectation as to be ‘property’ in a constitutional sense”
• stating that “ranks within an occu- pation” are not separate occupations
• where statute provided for promotion of police officers based on merit, seniority and examination, choice between highest-ranking candidates remained discretionary and was not a matter of right

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