Raila v. The Cook County Officers Electoral Board and its Members

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ANDREA RAILA, Plaintiff, No. 19 C 7580 v. Judge Thomas M. Durkin COOK COUNTY OFFICERS ELECTORAL BOARD, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER An adage known as “Hanlon’s Razor” says, in its most polite form, that we should not “infer malice from conduct that can be adequately attributed to incompetence.”1 Like its more familiar cousin Occam’s Razor, which says that all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one, Hanlon’s Razor is a principle for eliminating unlikely…