ARSBERRY v. ILLINOIS

No. 00-1777.

244 F.3d 558 (2001)

Katie ARSBERRY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. State of ILLINOIS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 19, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen G. Seliger (argued), Seliger, Elkin & Dolan, James G. Bradtke, Soule & Bradtke, Chicago, IL, Michael E. Deutsch, Center For Constitutional Rights, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Erik G. Light, Mary E. Welsh (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Paul A. Castiglione (argued), Office of the State's Attorney of Cook County, Charles H.R. Peters (argued), Roger Pascal, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Leslie M. Smith, Kirkland & Ellis, Ross B. Bricker, Jenner & Block, Gary Senner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Thomas F. Downing, Office of the State's Attorney of DuPage County, Wheaton, IL, Patricia J. Lord, Kane County States Attorney, Geneva, IL, Jay M. Vogelson, Stutzman & Bromberg, Dallas, TX, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit by Illinois prison and jail inmates, inmates' family members (and other intimates of the inmates), and a public-interest law firm that specializes in the defense of inmates on death row in Illinois. Grounded in 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Sherman Act, and Illinois state law, the suit attacks the practice by which each prison and jail grant one phone company the exclusive right to provide telephone service to the inmates in return...

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