Reuben Palmer, Subclass a and Edward Negron, Subclass B v. City of Chicago, Richard Brzeczek, Commander Milton Deas, and Richard M. Daley

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The City of Chicago and the County of Cook, Illinois appeal the entry of a preliminary injunction requiring the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to revamp their internal procedures for the recording, maintaining, and production of investigative files. We reverse and remand this case to the district court with instructions to limit the preliminary injunctive relief to the preservation of “street files” now in existence for criminal defendants convicted of felonies in the Cook County Circuit Court.

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The record reveals that in May 1981,…