FIRST DEFENSE LEGAL AID v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 01 C 9671.

209 F.Supp.2d 935 (2002)

FIRST DEFENSE LEGAL AID, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

July 18, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Benson Futterman, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Chicago, IL, Locke E. Bowman, Jean McClean Snyder, MacArthur Justice Center, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs.

Daniel E. Reidy, June K. Ghezzi, Jason Graham Winchester, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, IL, Alec M. McAusland, Allen Duarte, City of Chicago, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Commercial & Policy Litigation Division, Chicago, IL, Sheri H. Mecklenburg, Scott J. Jebson, City of Chicago, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Individual Defense Litigation Division, Chicago, IL, Paul A. Castiglione, Louis R. Hegeman, Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

This lawsuit presents a collision between (1) the lawyer plaintiffs — not-for-profit legal organization First Defense Legal Aid ("First Defense") and two of its lawyer staff members — who seek to exercise their claimed First Amendment1 right to represent clients who are held by the police for interrogation purposes (with the police taking the position...

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