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SHAKMAN v. CLERK OF COOK COUNTY

No. 20-1828.

994 F.3d 832 (2021)

Michael SHAKMAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CLERK OF COOK COUNTY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 16, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh S. Balsam , Irina Dashevsky , Attorney, Brian I. Hays , Attorney, Ernesto R. Palomo , Attorney, Locke Lord LLP, Chicago, IL, Mary Eileen Cunniff Wells , Edward W. Feldman , Michael L. Shakman , Attorneys, Miller, Shakman Levine & Feldman LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Adam R. Vaught , Lari A. Dierks , Attorneys, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Easterbrook, Kanne, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.

This appeal returns us to consent decrees —the so-called Shakman Decrees— entered in 1972 and 1991 to monitor political patronage practices in Chicago. The Clerk of Cook County remains subject to the Consent Decrees to this day. Before us is the Clerk's appeal from a decision finding recent violations of the...

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