Akbar v. Interstate Realty Management Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JAMAL A. AKBAR, ) ) Plaintiff, ) 17-cv-05447 ) v. ) Judge Edmond E. Chang ) SAVOY SQUARES, ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER In July 2017, Jamal Akbar filed this civil-rights lawsuit, 42 U.S.C. § 1983— without a lawyer—against “Savoy Squares,”1 which he alleged was a property- management company in Chicago. Savoy Squares allegedly enters into low-income housing contracts with the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Also named in the suit was one of…