YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN v. KENNEDY

No. 77-1870.

569 F.2d 431 (1977)

YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Margaret KENNEDY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1977.

Petition for Rehearing Denied January 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick T. Murphy, Douglas C. Nohlgren, Chicago, Ill., amicus curiae.

John A. Dienner, III, Asst. State's Atty., Bernard Carey, State's Atty., Herbert Lee Caplan, Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS and BAUER, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are eight adults who were adopted as infants and Yesterday's Children, which is a not-for-profit Illinois corporation consisting of approximately 6,000 adults who were also adopted as infants. Their civil rights complaint was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against four Illinois officials1 and the presiding judge, County Division, of the Circuit Court of...

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