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CREEK v. VILLAGE OF WESTHAVEN

No. 97-1904.

144 F.3d 441 (1998)

J. Fred CREEK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF WESTHAVEN, Illinois Housing Development Authority, Village of Orland Park, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren S. Radler, Steven R. Merican (argued), Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, Chicago, IL, for J. Fred Creek.

George J. Sotos, Office of the State's Attorney of Dupage County, Wheaton, IL, for Village of Westhaven.

Robert L. Graham, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Illinois Housing Development Authority.

Russell J. Hoover, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, Hugh C. Griffin, Richard F. Johnson, Daniel J. Zollner (argued), Leslie J. Rosen, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, IL, for Village of Orland Park.

Edward A. McCarthy, Matyas & Norris, Chicago, IL, for Orland Park School District 135.

Hugh C. Griffin, Richard F. Johnson, Daniel J. Zollner (argued), Leslie J. Rosen, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, IL, Orland Fire Protection District.

Douglas W. Graham, Chicago, IL, for Orland Township.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a civil rights suit that has been before us previously, in 1996. See Creek v. Village of Westhaven, 80 F.3d 186 (7th Cir.1996) ("Creek I"). At that time we stated that this case was "unfortunately protracted." The dispute is now closing in on its sixteenth birthday, a landmark that no piece of litigation should reach. Our decision today, hopefully, will provide an overdue closure...

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