Legal Opinion
Gibson v. Bob Watson Chevrolet-Geo, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 23, 1997No. Nos. 96-2673, 96-2776 and 96-3093PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
We have consolidated the appeals from the decisions dismissing on the pleadings three class-action suits against Chicago-area automobile dealers for violation of the Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq. These suits are among some fifteen almost identical class actions filed by the same law firm against such dealers. For unexplained reasons the cases, having initially been randomly assigned to different district judges in the Northern District of Illinois, were not reassigned to a single judge, as authorized by N.D. 111. R. 2.31, but remained with the original…
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