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PEOPLE ORGANIZED FOR WEL. & EMP. RIGHTS v. THOMPSON

No. 82 C 7144.

559 F.Supp. 54 (1983)

PEOPLE ORGANIZED FOR WELFARE AND EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS, a/k/a P.O.W.E.R., Walter Tunis and Clarence Propst, Plaintiffs, v. James R. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Illinois; Jeffrey Miller, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Aid; E. Allen Bernard, Director of the Illinois Department of Labor; Michael LaVelle, Chairman and Commissioner of the Chicago Board of Elections; Corneal Davis and James R. Nolan, Commissioners of the Chicago Board of Elections, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

March 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Gilbert, Thomas Johnson, Robert E. Lehrer, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Neil Hartigan, Atty. Gen., State of Ill., Barbara Greenspan, James O'Connell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for State defendants.

Michael Levinson, Chicago Bd. of Election Com'rs, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Bd. and Bd. members.

ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

Before the Court is the plaintiffs' Motion for an Award of Attorneys' Fees and Costs against the state defendants and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners (the Board). For the reasons stated herein, the Motion is granted as against the state defendants and denied as against the Board.

Plaintiffs consist of the organization commonly known as P.O.W.E.R. and individual members therein. In anticipation of the February...

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