Legal Opinion
Cygnar v. City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 30, 1986No. 85 C 5902PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
SHADUR, District Judge.
City of Chicago (“City”) and former Executive Director Raleigh Mathis (“Mathis”) of the Office of Municipal Investigation (“OMI”) have brought post-trial motions under Fed.R.Civ.P. (“Rules”) 49(b), 50(b) and 59(e). They seek alternatively to set aside the judgment, to enter judgment in their favor notwithstanding the verdict, to obtain a new trial or to reduce damages, in each instance seeking to upset the aggregate $4.29 million judgment awarded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”) to 13 white Chicago police officers transferred out of…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
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