Legal Opinion
Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago, and United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 1984No. 83-1853, 83-1854PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal (under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1)) by the Justice Department from an order enjoining it from putting into effect in Chicago a provision of the Department’s new guidelines for FBI investigations requires us to consider the proper standards for interpreting an equity decree that restricts the executive branch of the federal government in the performance of its constitutional responsibilities.
The suit out of which the order under review arose was brought in 1973 and charged, so far as is pertinent here, that the FBI’s Chicago office had in the name of domestic…
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- United States v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
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