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CITY OF CHICAGO v. KING

Gen. No. 51,792.

86 Ill. App.2d 340 (1967)

230 N.E.2d 41

City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation, Orlando W. Wilson, Superintendent of Police of the City of Chicago, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, et al., Defendants, Frank Ditto, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Fourth Division.

Rehearing denied and opinion modified September 28, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Bass, Richard F. Watt, and Irving M. King, of Chicago (Stanley A. Bass and Cotton, Watt, Jones & King, of counsel), for appellant Frank Ditto.

Lee J. Vickman and Richard R. Elledge, of Chicago, for American Civil Liberties Union, Illinois Division, amicus curiae.

Raymond F. Simon, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Thomas A. Foran, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Robert E. Wiss, of counsel), for appellees.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ENGLISH delivered the opinion of the court.

On September 6, 1966, defendant Frank Ditto was convicted of criminal contempt and sentenced to six months in the County Jail. He appeals, contending: (a) the temporary injunction order which he was alleged to have violated and upon which his contempt conviction was based, was unconstitutional and therefore void; (b) it was therefore error to refuse to...

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