Legal Opinion

Hastert v. Illinois State Board of Election Commissioners

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided December 17, 1993No. Nos. 92-1397 to 92-1399, 92-1402 and 92-1403PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

We are asked here to review a decision of a three-judge district court denying attorneys’ fees to certain parties involved in litigation regarding congressional redistricting in Illinois following the 1990 census. We initially decided that we had jurisdiction over the appeals brought by the Hastert, Nieves, Urban League and Scott plaintiffs, but jurisdiction over the Rosebrook appeal only to the extent that they appealed the district court’s denial of their Rule 60(b) motion to reconsider its judgment. Hastert v. State Board of Election, Nos. 92-1397, 92-1398, 92-1399,…

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