Legal Opinion
Spanish Action Committee of Chicago v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 1987No. 85-1767PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
The Spanish Action Committee of Chicago (“SACC”) is a Humboldt Park Puerto Rican group organized to address community problems such as housing, education, police brutality, and community unrest. In 1966 the Intelligence Division Security Section of the Chicago Police Department undertook a secret operation to infiltrate and disrupt the activities of SACC. Upon uncovering evidence of this operation many years later, SACC and two individual plaintiffs brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in 1980 against the City of Chicago and three police officers employed in the…
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