United States Seventh Circuit

Illinois voters lack standing for claims against former Illinois Secretary of State and department's employees because their claims lack redressability: just because a plaintiff may derive satisfaction from the fact that a wrongdoer gets his just desserts does not constitute an acceptable Article III remedy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2000
• Decided 02/06/2001
• Published 02/06/2001

Judges

• HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge., Before WOOD, Jr., DIANE P. WOOD, and TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John G. Jacobs (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Darryl B. Simko, Office of Atty. General, Chicago, IL, for Jesse White.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jack J. Crow (argued), James R. Thompson, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.