Edward PALMER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 201-U, WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 12, 1994.
Decided February 3, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Forest J. Miles (argued), Richard J. Witry, McCarthy, Duffy, Neidhart & Snakard, Carlton Lowe (argued), Thomas S. Moore, Chicago, IL, for Edward Palmer, Rose Simpson, Jerry Crockett and James Harris, individually and on behalf of a class of persons similarly situated, plaintiffs-appellants.
Lawrence J. Weiner, John M. Izzo, Anthony G. Scariano, Raymond A. Hauser (argued), Jon Gardner Crawford, Scariano, Kula, Ellch & Himes, Chicago, IL, for Board of Educ. of Community Unit School Dist. 201-U, Will County, IL, Michael E. Stallings, John Ebner, Kenneth D. Schmitt, John W. Ritchie, Randall G. Farmer, Donna L. Swanstrom, Peg Kullio, Bruce Setchell and Jack Slaybaugh.
Jon Gardner Crawford, Scariano, Kula, Ellch & Himes, Stuart D. Gordon, Chicago, IL, for Jan Gould.
Before LAY, EASTERBROOK, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The principal question in this case is whether the suits that produced Brown v. Board of Education,347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), should have been dismissed as untimely rather than decided on the merits. Some of the states whose laws were at issue had segregated their schools by race since the nineteenth century, but the plaintiffs did not file suit until 1950. If the claim accrued...
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