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N. A. COLD STOR. CO. v. COUNTY OF COOK

No. 78 C 3533.

468 F.Supp. 424 (1979)

NORTH AMERICAN COLD STORAGE COMPANY, Peterlin Building Corporation, LaSalle National Bank as Trustee under Trust No. 44891, and Harriet M. Rosene and Lois M. Spector, d/b/a Sherone Apartments, Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF COOK, P. J. Cullerton, Individually and as Assessor of Cook County, Thomas M. Tully, Individually and as Assessor of Cook County, Harry H. Semrow, Individually and as a member of the Board of Appeals of Cook County, Seymour Zaban, Individually and as a member of the Board of Appeals of Cook County, and Robert J. Lehnhausen, Frank A. Kirk, John Castle and J. Thomas Johnson, Individually and as Directors of the Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs, Defendants.

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

April 10, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Fox, Abramson & Fox, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Michael F. Baccash, Asst. State's Atty. of Cook County (county defendants), Chicago, Ill., Herbert Lee Caplan, Asst. Atty. Gen. of State of Illinois (state defendants), Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GRADY, District Judge.

This is an action by plaintiffs, as taxpayers, seeking compensatory and punitive damages under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for injuries allegedly caused by various county and state taxing officials and by the County of Cook.1 Plaintiffs allege that from 1972 through 1977, defendants have systematically, knowingly, intentionally, fraudulently and invidiously discriminated against them by assessing...

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