Legal Opinion
People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 19, 1999No. Nos. 98-1056, 98-1105, 98-1231, 98-1449, 98-2452, 98-2488, 98-3340 and 98-3858PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
We have consolidated for decision eight appeals, seven by the Rockford, Illinois, board of education and the eighth by three members of the board who sought to intervene in the district court and were turned down. The board’s appeals challenge budget orders by the magistrate judge who is presiding over the long-running Rockford public school desegregation case. None of the appeals has merit. A newly elected school board and its newly retained law firm are engaged in guerrilla warfare against the very provisions of a remedial decree to which their predecessors had…
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