Legal Opinion
Ethnic Awareness Organization v. Gagnon
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided August 16, 1983No. Civ. A. 82-C-920PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.
This action arises under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. By its president, Mr. Sanford Gibson, the Ethnic Awareness Organization (“E.A.O.”) * seeks damages, an injunction, and declaratory relief against the superintendents and staff of the Fox Lake Correctional Institution. Jurisdiction is predicated on 28 U.S.C. § 1343.
Both parties have filed pretrial motions. First, plaintiff moves the Court to certify the ninety E.A.O. members as a class pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23. Second, plaintiff moves the Court to issue a “protective order” prohibiting defendants from…
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- American Dairy Queen Corporation v. Brown-Port Company, a Wisconsin Limited PartnershipCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1980
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