ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSION v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 86-2609.

820 F.2d 873 (1987)

ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon Baldwin, Acting Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Richard M. Gutman, Richard Gutman, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The City of Chicago spied on and infiltrated several organizations of political dissidents. The organizations and some of their members claimed that the infiltration and subsequent adverse publicity violated their rights under the first amendment to the Constitution, applied to the states through the fourteenth. In 1975 the City stopped the infiltration and abolished the unit of the Police Department that had been responsible for it. In...

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