COLLINS v. GORMAN

No. 93-1963.

96 F.3d 1057 (1996)

Cheryle A. COLLINS and Heywood Fuller T., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Kay GORMAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cheryle A. Collins, Hazel Crest, IL, pro se.

Heywood T. Fuller, Hazel Crest, IL, pro se.

Richard T. Ryan, Mark F. Smolens, Flynn, Murphy & Ryan, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Kendra Gorman, Joseph I. Bopp, Village River Forest.

John Patrick Cleary (argued), Flynn Murphy & Ryan, Chicago, IL, John B. Murphey, Rosenthal, Murphey, Coblentz & Janega, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee City of Oak Park, Illinois.

Robert J. Palmer, John Dorbin, Law Student (argued), May, Oberfell & Lorber, South Bend, IN, for amicus curiae Robert J. Palmer.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

After they prevailed in this litigation (the substantive details of which are irrelevant) defendants filed a bill of costs for $5,818.63. Of this amount, $2,628.00 supposedly covered fees for service of summons and subpoenas. The itemization of that line item does not list any particular documents served; instead it recites that some unidentified person spent 43.8 hours serving unidentified documents on unidentified recipients, for $60...

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