McNEIL v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

No. 85-2365.

658 F.Supp. 1015 (1987)

Frank McNEIL, William H. Washington, Sr., Rudolph V. Davenport, Howard Veal, Sr., and Archie Lawrence, Individually and representing all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, J. Michael Houston, Frank Madonia, James Norris, Ossie Langfelder, and J. Patrick Ward, as Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Springfield, Illinois, Defendants Counterplaintiffs, v. Frank McNEIL, William H. Washington, Sr., Rudolph V. Davenport, Archie Lawrence, and Howard Veal, Sr., Counterdefendants.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Danville Division.

As Corrected January 14 and March 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Craven, Don Craven, Peter Wise, Metnick & Barewin, Springfield, Ill., Samuel Issacharoff, Robert McDuff, and Richard B. Jerome, Washington, D.C., Charles E. Carter, Grover Hankins, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

William S. Hanley and Jane Lynk, Sorling, Northrup, Hanna, Cullen & Cochran, Fredric Benson and Robert M. Rogers, Corp. Counsel, The City of Springfield, Irv Smith, Bruce Stratton, Stratton, Nardulli & Lestikow, Springfield, Ill., Steve Bickerstaff, Austin, Tex., Lawrence DiNardo, Camille Olson, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BAKER, Chief Judge.

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

This is a class action in which the plaintiffs, the black citizens of the United States above the age of eighteen years who are residents of the City of Springfield, Illinois, seek remedies for claimed violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended June 29, 1982. Specifically, the plaintiffs claim that the structure...

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