In re AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVE DESCENDANTS LITIGATION
United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 26, 2004.
January 26, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lionel Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Baptiste and Raoul, Evanston, IL, Benjamin Obi Nwoye, Mendoza & Nwoye, P.C., Chicago, IL, Roger S. Wareham, Thomas Wareham & Richards, Brooklyn, NY, Bryan R. Williams, New York, NY, Morse Geller, Forest Hills, NY, Diana E. Sammons, Nagel, Rice, Dreifuss & Mazie, Livingston, NJ, Pius Akamdi Obioha, Law Offices of Pius A. Obioha, New Orleans, LA, Gary L. Bledsoe, Law Offices of Gary L. Bledsoe, Austin, TX, Harry E. Cantrell, Jr., Cantrell Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza, Cape Town, South Africa, for plaintiff.
Andrew R. McGaan, Douglas Geoffrey Smith, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Thomas F. Gardner, Susan Lynn Winders, David Michael Kroeger, Jenner & Block, LLC, Chicago, IL, Heidi K. Hubbard, Andrew W. Rudge, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, Christina M. Tchen, Ryan James Rohlfsen, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP, Chicago, IL, Gary DiBianco, Andrew L. Sandler, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC, Jack E. McClard, Maya M. Eckstein, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA, Frank E Emory, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Charlotte, NC, James A. Fletcher, Fletcher & Sippel, LLC, Michael J. Barron, Chicago, IL, Debra Torres, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, NY, John Niblock, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, for defendant.
United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.
OPINION AND ORDER
NORGLE, District Judge.
Before the court is Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss. For the following reasons, the motion is granted.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case arises out of the institution of human chattel slavery as it existed in the North American colonies and the latter-formed United States of America. The allegations in Plaintiffs' First Amended and Consolidated Complaint ("FACC" or "Complaint") retell the generally...
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