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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Ellis partially grants Chicago’s motion for summary judgment on sex discrimination claims brought by women who wanted to be city paramedics. The cadets were injured while performing trials in the Chicago Fire Department’s physical aptitude test, trials that even internal experts claimed really weren’t of much use in evaluating firefighters’ and paramedics’ job readiness. Multiple lawsuits followed. The city settled some of those suits and moved for summary judgment in this one. The court now denies Chicago summary judgment on the paramedics’ internal discrimination claim, and splits judgment on the paramedics’ Monell claim. It grants the claim “to the extent plaintiffs rely on a widespread policy or practice,” but denies it “as to plaintiffs’ claim that they suffered a constitutional injury at the hands of a final policymaker.”