Flynn v. Kucharski

This is an appeal from a trial judge’s award of attorneys’ fees of $750,000 to William J. Harte and Kevin M. Forde, who successfully represented plaintiffs in a class action for declaratory judgment, an accounting, and other relief brought by plaintiffs as residents and taxpayers of the City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois. The factual background of this litigation can be summarized as follows:

Plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of the method of tax collection and distribution in effect in Illinois and Cook County as fixed by statute. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 53, par. 55.6)…