CAMPUZANO v. ILLINOIS STATE BD. OF ELECTIONS

No. 01 C 50376.

241 F.Supp.2d 892 (2003)

Yolanda CAMPUZANO, Armando Cardenas, Gudalupe Garcia, Willie Jordan, Jr., David Winters, Patricia Reid Lindner, J. Bradley Burzynski, Frank Cano, Jesse Juarez, Eligio Marin, Lourdes Monteagudo, registered voters and Illinois citizens, and the Illinois Republican Party, Plaintiffs, v. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELETIONS, Ronald D. Michaelson, in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Illinois State Board of Elections, and Tom Cross, Thomas McCracken, Walter Dudycz, Thomas MarCucci, Barbara Flynn Currie, Vince Demuzio, Raymond Ewell, Jorge Ramirez, and Michael Bilandic, all in their official capacities as members of the Illinois Redistricting Commission, Defendants.

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

January 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Francis Molo, Kenneth T. Kristl, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, Phillip Anthony Luetkehans, Brian J. Armstrong, Robert William Funk, II, Benjamin Andrew Swift, Schirott & Luetkehans, P.C., Itasca, IL, Terry A. Ekl, Connolly, Ekl & Williams, P.C., Clarendon Hill, IL, James Gus Sotos, Dana M. Shannon, Hervas, Sotos, Condon & Bersani, Itasca, IL, for plaintiffs.

Kathleen Kreisel Flahaven, Don R. Sampen, Richard Michael Stock, Charles F. Godbey, Phillip J. Robertson, Carole R. Doris, Ill. Atty. General's Office, Chicago, IL, for defendants.

William J. Harte, William J. Harte, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for respondent.

James D. Montgomery, James D. Montgomery & Assoc., Ltd., Chicago, IL, Shannon Keith Moorer, Ronald S. Samuels & Assoc., Chicago, IL, Courtney Carlton Nottage, J. Patrick Hanley, Chicago, IL, for Emil Jones, Jr., intervenor defendant.

Patricia Mendoza, Maria G. Valdez, Mexican Amer. Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Chicago, IL, for League of United Latin American Citizens, intervenor.

Before KANNE, Circuit Judge, TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge, and REINHARD, District Judge.


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

This order addresses a petition for attorneys' fees and costs filed by two defendant-intervenors, the League of United Latin American Citizens ("LULAC") and the African-American Working Group on Reapportionment ("AAWG"). The court assumes familiarity with its previous opinion in deciding the merits of the plaintiffs' claim under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, see Campuzano v. Illinois State Board...

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