United States Seventh Circuit

Preliminary injunction in a class action suit challenging practices of the Illinois child-welfare agency alleged to violate parental rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment is affirmed where the record does not demonstrate that the plaintiffs are entitled to relief, and only the lack of a cross-appeal by the state prevents the reversal of the injunction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/03/2006
• Published 10/04/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jack L. Block, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL, Robert E. Lehrer (argued), Lehrer & Redleaf, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barbara L. Greenspan (argued), Erik G. Light, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.