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CYGNAR v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 87-1181.

865 F.2d 827 (1989)

Gerald CYGNAR, Thomas Flanagan, John Murray, Administrator of the Estate of Francis O'Driscoll, Robert Shanahan, John Capesius, John Di Maggio, James Gartner, Francesco Riggio, Jerold Wojnar, Dwight Bleke, Frank Cappitelli, and Lucille Rubino, Administratrix of the Estate of Raymond Rubino, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Raleigh Mathis, Fred Rice, and Harold Washington, individually and officially, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Gubbins, John L. Gubbins & Assoc., Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mary L. Mikva, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before COFFEY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants, 13 Chicago police officers, appeal the district court's grant of judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) in favor of the defendants-appellees, City of Chicago, Fred Rice, and Raleigh Mathis. The court's JNOV order overturned the lion's share of a jury's $4.29 million verdict finding that the plaintiffs had been transferred from the City's Office of Municipal Investigations to assignments within the Chicago police...

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