CHICAGO BD. OF EDUC. v. SUBSTANCE, INC.

No. 03-1479.

354 F.3d 624 (2003)

CHICAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SUBSTANCE, INC. and George N. Schmidt, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy K. Laureto (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mark H. Barinholtz (argued), Elaine K.B. Siegel (argued), Hager & Siegel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Patricia J. Whitten, Kristi L. Bowman (argued), Franczek Sullivan, Chicago, IL, for Illinois Ass'n of School Boards.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 1999 the Chicago Board of Education brought this suit for copyright infringement against a Chicago public school teacher named Schmidt and a corporation that owns a local newspaper called Substance, aimed at such teachers, which Schmidt edits. (To simplify the opinion, we'll ignore the corporation.) In August 2002 the magistrate judge issued an injunction mysteriously captioned "Permanent...

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