In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation
District Court, N.D. Illinois
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
NORGLE, District Judge.
Before the court is Defendants’ Joint Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Second Consolidated and Amended Complaint. For the following reasons, the motion is granted with prejudice.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case 'arises out of the institution of human chattel slavery as it existed in the North American colonies and the later formed United States of America. The allegations in Plaintiffs’ Second Consolidated and Amended Complaint (“SCAC” or “Complaint”) retell the generally acknowledged horrors of the institution of slavery, and the malignant actions of the…
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