Legal Opinion
Ralph Lightfoot, Lacarttle Jones, Fred Jenkins, and Nelson Weaver v. Daniel Walker, Governor of the State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 31, 1986No. 86-2004PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The appellants, who were the defendants in the district court, have asked us to stay the district court’s judgment pending appeal. Fed.R.App.P. 8. The request raises a question concerning bond pending appeal, which we have decided to answer in a published opinion to provide guidance for future litigants.
The underlying lawsuit is a massive prisoners’ civil rights suit against the State of Illinois (the public officials who are the named defendants were sued in their official rather than personal capacities, so that the suit is in effect one against the state), challenging…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Olympia Equipment Leasing Company, Alfco Telecommunications Company, and Abraham Feldman v. Western Union Telegraph CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- Donald G. Adams v. Daniel Walker, A/K/A Dan Walker, Individually and as Governor of the State of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
- Preston v. ThompsonDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1983
- Strama v. PetersonDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1982
3Cited by48 opinions
- Northern Indiana Public Service Company, an Indiana Corporation v. Carbon County Coal Company, a PartnershipCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- Joseph Dillon v. City of Chicago, a Municipal CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
- Ron Grubb and Weatherford Interstate Financial Corporation, Plaintiffs v. Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1988
- Lightfoot v. WalkerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1987
- Schreiber v. KelloggDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1993
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