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PEOPLE WHO CARE v. ROCKFORD BD. OF EDUC.

No. 94-3954.

68 F.3d 172 (1995)

PEOPLE WHO CARE, Larry Hoarde, Chasty Hoarde, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ROCKFORD BOARD OF EDUCATION, School District # 205, Jacquelyn Confer, Avery Gage, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Appeal of Michael F. O'BRIEN, Proposed Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Piers, Jonathan A. Rothstein, Jennifer L. Fischer, Gessler, Flynn, Fleischmann, Hughes & Socol, Robert C. Howard, Kathleen M. Spoto, Joan Matlack, Futterman & Howard, Chicago, IL, Andrew Campos, Rockford Area Hispanic Coalition, Rockford, IL, Eugene Eubanks, Jr., Kansas City, MO, James G. Bradtke (argued), Soule & Bradtke, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lawrence J. Weiner (argued), Robert H. Ellch, Justino D. Petrarca, Jonathan A. Pearl, Albert L. Himes, George R. Cooper, Scariano, Kula, Ellch & Himes, Chicago, IL, Anthony G. Scariano, Scariano, Kula, Ellch & Himes, Chicago Heights, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Michael F. O'Brien (argued) Rockford, IL, pro se.

Before CUDAHY, ESCHBACH and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Michael O'Brien contests the legality, under Illinois law, of funding mechanisms adopted to remedy discrimination in the Rockford school system. He filed tax protests in state court in 1992, 1993 and 1994 contesting the taxes levied to fund remedial programs, and now seeks to intervene in the federal discrimination suit against the Rockford Board of Education. The district court found the motion to intervene untimely. We affirm.

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