ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING v. LaPAILLE

No. 91 C 6318.

782 F.Supp. 1272 (1992)

ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Gary J. LaPAILLE, et al., Defendants. Joseph GARDNER, Lovana Jones, Dan Barreiro, William Shephard, Jr., John Lee Johnson, Gwendolyn Scott, Laura Barth, Warren Dorris, Marvin French, Jayme Cain, Percy Conway, Joseph Belman, Luis Albarasin, Crotis Teague, Jr., Henry Landrau, Carolyn Toney, Fred Smith, Charlie Wilson, Jr., and Bobby E. Thompson, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Counter-Plaintiffs, v. ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, Al Jourdan, Frank Watson, Robert Churchill, Gene Hoffman, Dallas Ingemunson, George H. Ryan, sued in his official capacity as Illinois Secretary of State, and Illinois State Board of Elections, Counter-Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

January 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Francis Molo, Dan K. Webb, Catherine W. Joyce, Thomas Vernon Skinner, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Ill., James Robert Schirott, Schirott & Associates, P.C., Itasca, Ill., for Illinois Legislative Redistricting Com'n, Al Jourdan, Frank Watson, Robert Churchill, Gene Hoffman, Dallas Ingemunson.

Jeffrey D. Colman, Thomas Shane O'Neill, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for Illinois Legislative Redistricting Com'n, Al Jourdan, Frank Watson, Gary J. LaPaille, Bruce Crosby, Miguel Del Valle, Jim McPike, Jerome Joyce, Eartharin Cousin, Tom Lyons, Roland W. Burris, Joseph Gardner, Robert L. Lucas, Lovana Jones, Dan Barreiro, William Shepard, Jr., John Lee Johnson, Gwendolyn Scott, Laura Barth, Warren Dorris, Marvin French, Jayme Cain, Percy Conway, Joseph Belman, Luis Albarasin, Crotis Teague, Jr., Henry Landrau, Carolyn Toney, Fred Smith, Charlie Wilson, Jr., Bobby E. Thompson, Henry Martinez, Roberto Gonzalez, Anita Garcia, Maria A. Morales, Marta Caldero, Consuelo Zemaitis, J. Richard Mota, Dave Duran, Teresa Fraga Orosco, Beverly Area Planning Ass'n, William Gainer, Mt. Greenwood Civic Ass'n, Curt Mentzer, Paula Derbak, Sharon Hanlon, Thomas C. Hynes, Jeremiah Joyce, James Keane, Thaddeus Lechowicz, Robert J. Bugielski, Polish American Congress, Inc., Rebecca W. Owens, Gay E. Bruhn, Mary Finger, Marisa L. L'Heureux, Carol Travis, Wilfred G. Stewart, Mary Ellen Smyth, Sara Tompson, Mary Mari Anna Murphy, Ava George, Sandra M. Scott.

Richard J. Prendergast, Richard J. Prendergast, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Gary J. LaPaille.

Matthew J. Piers, Jonathan A. Rothstein, Gessler, Flynn, Fleischmann, Hughes & Socol, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Miguel Del Valle.

Joseph E. Tighe, Richard J. Prendergast, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Jom McPike, Jerome Joyce, Eartharin Cousin, Tom Lyons.

James R. Carroll, Roger Philip Flahaven, Illinois Atty. General's Office, Chicago, Ill., for Roland W. Burris.

Robert L. Tucker, Tucker, Watson, Butler & Todd, Joseph E. Tighe, Richard J. Prendergast, Ltd., William J. Harte, Stephen L. Garcia, Courtney Carlton Nottage, William J. Harte, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Joseph Gardner, Lovana Jones, Dan Barreiro, William Shepard, Jr., John Lee Johnson, Gwendolyn Scott, Laura Barth, Warren Dorris, Marvin French, Jayme Cain, Percy Conway, Joseph Belman, Luis Albarasin, Crotis Teague, Jr., Henry Landrau, Carolyn Toney, Fred Smith, Charlie Wilson, Jr., Bobby E. Thompson.


ORDER

NORGLE, District Judge.

Before the court is the motion of the counter-plaintiffs to dismiss, or alternatively for summary judgment on, the counterclaims. For reasons that follow, the motion is granted in part, denied in part, and reserved in part.

FACTS

This action arises from efforts to redistrict the Illinois General Assembly following the 1990 federal census. The initial complaint was filed by the Illinois Legislative Redistricting...

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