INDIANAPOLIS COLTS v. MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL

No. 84-1649.

733 F.2d 484 (1984)

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, Defendant-Appellant, and Capital Improvement Board of Managers of Marion County, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin C. Thomas, III, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

John P. Price, David O. Tittle, Martha S. Hollingsworth, Donald L. Jackson, Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman, William M. Evans, Robert P. Kassing, Alan W. Becker, Bose, McKinney & Evans, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The suit in the district court arises from the efforts of Baltimore Football Club, Inc., the owner of the Baltimore Colts professional football team, to move the team from Baltimore to Indianapolis. One of the defendants, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (City of Baltimore, for short), has filed a motion asking us for the following relief pending the hearing of its appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1): to stay the injunction that...

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