People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education, School District No. 205

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, a school district, in this long-running school desegregation case (see, e.g., People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education, 246 F.3d 1073 (7th Cir.2001), 171 F.3d 1083 (7th Cir.1999), 153 F.3d 834 (7th Cir.1998) (per curiam), 90 F.3d 1307 (7th Cir.1996), 921 F.2d 132 (7th Cir.1991)) appeals from an order awarding the plaintiffs some $800,000 in fees for services performed by them lawyers in 1997. The threshold question is whether we have jurisdiction of this appeal, which is interlocutory because the underlying litigation has not yet concluded. Although…