Legal Opinion
Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 26, 1987No. 86-2609PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The City of Chicago spied on and infiltrated several organizations of political dissidents. The organizations and some of their members claimed that the infiltration and subsequent adverse publicity violated their rights under the first amendment to the Constitution, applied to the states through the fourteenth. In 1975 the City stopped the infiltration and abolished the unit of the Police Department that had been responsible for it. In 1981 the City consented to the entry of an injunction against investigation and infiltration in the absence of reasonable grounds…
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3Cited by72 opinions
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