WADE v. CICERO, ILLINOIS

No. 83 C 2760.

571 F.Supp. 157 (1983)

Charles WADE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CICERO, ILLINOIS, et al., Defendants.

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

August 11, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Novack, Marilyn J. Klawiter, F. Thomas Hecht, Levy & Erens, Harvey Grossman, Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Thomas D. Nash, Jr., George S. Lalich, Nash & Lalich, Chicago, Ill., Steven C. Filipowski, Donna Baffoe McDonald, Cicero, Ill., Joseph A. Murphy, John B. Murphy, Steven A. Stender, Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Murphy & Cope, Nancy G. Lischer, Michael J. Hayes, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

GRADY, District Judge.

This is a race discrimination action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985(3). Plaintiff Wade was a horse-care worker in the Town of Cicero, where he and his family lived. Plaintiffs, who are black, allege that defendants, on account of plaintiffs' race, excluded the three school-aged Wade children from the Cicero public schools. Plaintiffs further allege that as a result of this conduct, Wade was...

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