Legal Opinion
In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation. Appeals of Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, and Timothy Hurdle
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 13, 2006No. 05-3265, 05-3266, 05-3305PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Nine suits were filed in federal district courts around the country seeking monetary relief under both federal and state law for harms stemming from the enslavement of black people in America. A tenth suit, by the Hurdle group of plaintiffs, makes similar claims but was filed in a state court and then removed by the defendants to a federal district court. The Multidistrict Litigation Panel consolidated all the suits in the district court in Chicago for pretrial proceedings. 28 U.S.C. § 1407. Once there, the plaintiffs (all but the Hurdle plaintiffs, about whom more…
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