HOUSING AUTH. RISK RETENTION v. CHICAGO HOUSING

No. 03-4164.

378 F.3d 596 (2004)

HOUSING AUTHORITY RISK RETENTION GROUP, INC. Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 28, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald E. Ziebell, Karbal, Cohen, Economou, Silk & Dunne, Chicago, IL, Alan R. Lyons (argued), Herrick Feinstein, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

F. Thomas Hecht, John P. Buckley (argued), Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Defending oneself from a large-scale class action lawsuit is a costly task. And so it comes as no surprise that these two parties are before us to determine who should foot the bill for the defense of a 1999 lawsuit filed by approximately 10,000 current or former Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) residents who claimed they have been exposed to and harmed by environmental contaminants while living on CHA's public housing property...

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