Legal Opinion
Bertha Balark v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 2, 1996No. 95-1181, 95-1182PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
More than twenty years ago, Sylvia Evans settled a wrongful death action against the City of Chicago for $67,500. That lawsuit, and the later action brought by the Balark plaintiffs, gave rise to the litigation that now comes before this Court for the fourth time. In the Evans and Balark class actions, the plaintiffs challenged the City’s practice of paying tort judgments of $1,000 and less before it paid larger judgments. Between May 20, 1984 and June 29,1994, the plaintiff classes and the City were parties to a consent decree that governed the order in which…
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