United States Seventh Circuit

Motion to intervene, in action seeking to enjoin board from promulgating and implementing new rules on special education teacher certification, was properly denied where made ten months after the rules were being drafted and publicly discussed; injunction improper where appellant could not show likelihood of establishing that the decree issued was not one of the solutions that was appropriate.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2002
• Decided 05/13/2002
• Published 05/13/2002

Judges

• DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Campbell, Jr. (argued), Piper Rudnick, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants in No. 01-2707., John M. West (argued), Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, William J. Campbell, Jr., Piper Rudnick, Chicago, IL, for Appellants in No. 01-3432.


• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., Respicio F. Vasquez, Illinois State Bd. of Educ., Gen. Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Illinois State Bd. of Educ., John S. Elson (argued), Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Corey H., Andrew B. And Jason E. in No. 01-2707., Marilyn F. Johnson, Chicago School Reform Bd. of Trustees, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant Paul Villas in No. 01-2707., Marilyn F. Johnson, Kathleen M. Gibbons (argued), Chicago School Reform Bd. of Trustees, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chicago, IL, in No. 01-2707., Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., Respicio F. Vasquez, Illinois State Bd. of Educ., Gen. Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Glenn W. McGee in No. 01-2707., John S. Elson (argued), Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Corey H., Latricia H., Jason E. and Andrew B. in No. 01-3432., Kathleen M. Gibbons (argued), Chicago School Reform Bd. of Trustees, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chicago, IL, in No. 01-3432., Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., for Defendants-Appellees Illinois State Bd. of Educ. and Glenn W. McGee in No. 01-3432.