United States Seventh Circuit

The trial judge did not commit reversible error when he permitted the jury to disband for the weekend without consultation with the parties and without giving admonitions to the jurors to refrain from talking about the case while deliberations were suspended, where the record was opened to the parties to state their objections, if any, to the Court's failure to give such an admonition, and plaintiffs sat silent and failed to make any objections.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2000
• Decided 02/20/2001
• Published 02/20/2001

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald A. Goldman,Arthur R. Ehrlich (argued), Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marilyn F. Johnson, Lee A. Lowder (argued), Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.