SPANISH ACTION COMM. OF CHICAGO v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 85-1767.

811 F.2d 1129 (1987)

SPANISH ACTION COMMITTEE OF CHICAGO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Gutman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Sharon Baldwin, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

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


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

The Spanish Action Committee of Chicago ("SACC") is a Humboldt Park Puerto Rican group organized to address community problems such as housing, education, police brutality, and community unrest. In 1966 the Intelligence Division Security Section of the Chicago Police Department undertook a secret operation to infiltrate and disrupt the activities of SACC. Upon uncovering evidence of this operation many years later, SACC and two individual...

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