SAUKSTELIS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 90-3258.

932 F.2d 1171 (1991)

Laura SAUKSTELIS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1991.

Rehearing Denied June 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Reho and Michael B. Lebman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Kelly R. Welsh, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Office of the Corp. Counsel, Lawrence Rosenthal, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Brian Trubitt, Office of the Corp. Counsel, Appeals Div., David Rubman and Stanley Berman, Office of the Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

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


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Collecting fines for parking in forbidden zones and like offenses is hard to do. The fines are small individually but large in the aggregate. Chicago tried private collection agencies, an experiment forged in bribery, United States v. Davis, 890 F.2d 1373 (7th Cir.1989), and tempered in litigation, Horn v. Chicago, 860 F.2d 700 (7th Cir.1988). Dunning letters...

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