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O'KEEFE v. CHISHOLM

Nos. 14-1822, 14-1888, 14-1899, 14-2006, 14-2012, 14-2023, 14-2585.

769 F.3d 936 (2014)

Eric O'KEEFE and Wisconsin Club for Growth, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John T. CHISHOLM, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Francis Schmitz, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al., Intervenors-Appellants. Unnamed Intervenors No.1 and No.2, Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 24, 2014.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Boris Rivkin , Andrew M. Grossman , Lee A. Casey , Mark W. DeLaquil , Richard Bryan Raile , for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Joseph Michael Russell , for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and BAUER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

A federal district judge issued an injunction that blocks the State of Wisconsin from conducting a judicially supervised criminal investigation into the question whether certain persons have violated the state's campaign-finance laws. The court did this despite 28 U.S.C. § 2283, the Anti-Injunction Act, which provides: "A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly...

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