Legal Opinion
Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 2001No. 99-3825PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
More than a quarter of a century ago a number of individuals and organizations brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the United States and the City of Chicago, claiming that the FBI’s Chicago office and the Chicago Police Department’s intelligence division were violating the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by overly intrusive and improperly motivated investigations of alleged subversive activities. In 1981, before a trial could be held, the defendants agreed to a consent decree, which was approved by then district judge Getzendanner the following year, imposing…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County JailSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. DowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Missouri v. JenkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago, and United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Frank Bogard v. Robert Wright, Director of the Illinois Department of Public AidCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
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3Cited by16 opinions
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- People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education, School District No. 205Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
- United States v. MayerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007
- Rahman v. ChertoffCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
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