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O'SHEA v. LITTLETON

No. 72-953.

414 U.S. 488 (1974)

94 S.Ct. 669

38 L.Ed.2d 674

O'SHEA, MAGISTRATE, CIRCUIT COURT OF ALEXANDER COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ET AL. v. LITTLETON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. O'Rourke, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were William J. Scott, Attorney General, Fred F. Herzog, First Assistant Attorney General, John W. Freels, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Jerrald B. Abrams, Assistant Attorney General.

Alan M. Wiseman argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were James B. O'Shaughnessy and Michael P. Seng.*

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The respondents are 19 named individuals who commenced this civil rights action, individually and on behalf of a class of citizens of the city of Cairo, Illinois, against the State's Attorney for Alexander County, Illinois, his investigator, the Police Commissioner of Cairo, and the petitioners here, Michael O'Shea and Dorothy Spomer, Magistrate and Associate Judge of the Alexander County Circuit Court, respectively...

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