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ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSION v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 99-3825.

237 F.3d 799 (2001)

ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 11, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Gutman, Montclair, NJ, Lawrence V. Jackowiak, Edward W. Feldman (argued), Miller, Shakman & Hamilton, Harvey M. Grossman, Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Roger S. Hutchinson, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lawrence Rosenthal (argued), Benna R. Solomon, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

More than a quarter of a century ago a number of individuals and organizations brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the United States and the City of Chicago, claiming that the FBI's Chicago office and the Chicago Police Department's intelligence division were violating the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights by overly intrusive and improperly motivated investigations of alleged subversive activities. In 1981, before a trial could...

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