UNITY VENTURES v. COUNTY OF LAKE

No. 89-1122.

894 F.2d 250 (1990)

UNITY VENTURES, an Illinois Partnership, LaSalle National Bank, as Trustee under Trust 103331 and William Alter, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF LAKE, Village of Grayslake, Norman C. Geary, George Bell and Edwin M. Schroeder, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merle L. Royce, James H. Ryan, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Thomas H. Neuckranz, Williams & Montgomery, James P. Chapman (argued), Alan S. Mills, Chapman & Associates, Robert Zaideman, Jerry A. Esrig, Epstein, Zaideman & Esrig, Chicago, Ill., Helen Rozenberg, Gary Neddenriep and Gerald P. Callaghan, Asst. States Attys., Waukegan, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Robert C. Newman, Clifford L. Weaver (argued), Charles D. Knight, Burke, Bosselman & Weaver, Chicago, Ill., Rudolph F. Magna, Jr., Gurnee, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

After obtaining a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, Lake County1 petitioned the district court for attorney's fees, alleging that William Alter had brought his antitrust and civil rights action in bad faith. The district court denied the petition; Lake County now asks us to reverse that decision.

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The facts of this case have been twice recorded by federal courts. See

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