SHAKMAN v. DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION OF COOK COUNTY

No. 69 C 2145.

356 F.Supp. 1241 (1972)

Michael L. SHAKMAN et al., Plaintiffs, v. The DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION OF COOK COUNTY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

July 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Plotkin, Chicago, Ill., C. Richard Johnson, Chicago, Ill., Roger R. Fross, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Richard L. Curry, Corp. Counsel, Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Atty., George J. Schaller, Marvin E. Aspen, Paul Simon, Michael J. Howlett, Alan J. Dixon, Chicago, Ill., George J. Bakalis, Springfield, Ill., Robert A. Tingler, William J. Scott, James Ronan, William F. Scannell, Michael Daley, James M. O'Shaughnessy, Charles F. Marino, Chicago, Ill., Ray W. MacDonald, Robert M. Haenisch, James H. Clark, Wayne Shimp, Wheaton, Ill., Adamowski, Newey & Riley, Edward P. Saltiel, Neil F. Hartigan, Harry R. Posner, Allen S. Lavin, J. Kucharski, Joseph S. Wright, Hackbert, Rooks, Pitts, Fullagar & Poust, William R. Quinlan, Jr., Henry L. Shakman, Chicago, Ill., John H. Foley, Jr., Rockford, Ill., Peter F. Ferracuti, Ottawa, Ill., Jack Hoogasian, State's Atty., Lake County, Waukegan, Ill., William J. Cowlin, Woodstock, Ill., Marvin D. Dunn, Aurora, Ill., James A. Rooney, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., Winston J. Black, Krusemark & Bertani, Louis R. Bertani, State's Atty., Will County, Joliet, Ill., Robert E. Wiss, Thomas A. Foran, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

Motions to Strike and Dismiss

I.

MAROVITZ, District Judge.

This is yet another complicated phase in the continuing litigation arising from a suit instituted in 1969 by Michael Shakman, an independent candidate for the Illinois Constitutional Convention and Paul Lurie an independent voter who brought a class action for all independent candidates, independent voters and taxpayers. The defendants in the original...

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