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ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSION v. ROCHFORD

Nos. 77-1680 and 77-1679.

565 F.2d 975 (1977)

ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James M. ROCHFORD, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Griffin B. BELL et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1977.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 13, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas P. Sullivan, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Robert E. Kopp, Jonathan B. Smith, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., William R. Quinlan, Corp. Counsel, Jerome A. Siegan, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Robert J. Vollen, Richard M. Gutman, Robert C. Howard, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SWYGERT and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges, and CROWLEY, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied February 13, 1978.

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

The only issue raised in this interlocutory appeal is whether the district court abused its discretion in certifying the plaintiffs' suits as class actions under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

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This is a consolidated appeal of two class certification decisions by the same district court in separate, but quite similar, law suits. In both cases...

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