United States Seventh Circuit

Award of attorney's fees to Chicago aldermen opposed to a redistricting plan is reversed where rational basis review applied since the aldermen did not represent a suspect classification and the reimbursement for legal fees did not constitute a fundamental right, and the decision to award legal fees to only one group of aldermen was rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2006
• Published 08/07/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and BAUER and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jack L. Block (argued), Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL, Henry F. Field, Framingham, MA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Mara S. Georges, Myriam Zreczny (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.