WEIR v. PROPST

Nos. 90-8071, 90-8072.

915 F.2d 283 (1990)

Morton W. WEIR, Judith S. Liebman, Robert M. Berdahl, and Donald L. Bitzer, Petitioners-Defendants, v. Franklin M. PROPST, Respondent-Plaintiff.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Conway, Hopkins & Sutter, Chicago, Ill., James Kearns, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Urbana, Ill., Arnold F. Blockman, Hatch, Blockman, McPheters, Fehrenbacher & Lyke, Champaign, Ill., for petitioners-defendants.

John W. Leskera, Dunham, Boman and Leskera, East St. Louis, Ill., Robert G. Kirchner, Lerner and Kirchner, Champaign, Ill., for respondent-plaintiff.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

These two applications seek permission to appeal an order that "involves a controlling question of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion." 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). The case out of which they arise is a civil rights suit that began in 1987. On January 29 of this year the district court denied a motion by several defendants to dismiss them from the case. They claimed to...

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