Ogilvie cautions on remap for Illinois districts
Former Gov. Richard Ogilvie told a federal court redistricting hearing that aiding Illinois congressmen in Washington matters more than preserving safe black districts. He said protecting the three black lawmakers should not be an overriding consideration in drawing new maps.
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Chicago
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois
Washington
Ogilvie
U.S
Michael J. Howlett
Robert McClory
Lake Bluff
Gus Savage
Dan Rostenkowski
Ways and Means Committee
House
Congress
Cardiss Collins
ACLU sues Berwyn over barred neo Nazi speech
The ACLU seeks to compel Berwyn Illinois to grant a permit for a speech by Michael Allen leader of the National Socialist Party of America and to provide police protection after a Sept. 6 1980 rally in which he was injured by rocks and bricks. The suit names Berwyn Mayor Lanzillotti and Police Commander Kucera arguing officials violated Allen civil rights by denying six permit requests and failing to protect him.
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Chicago
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
U.S
Berwyn
Michael Allen
Allen
National Socialist Party of America
Jay A. Miller
Illinois Aclu
City of
Joseph Lanzillotti
William Kucera
Lanzillotti
Judge alleges bar group ratings block re election bid
A Circuit Court judge, Alfred T. Walsh, sues to stop the Chicago Bar Association from publishing its findings on his fitness for office. He says without a recommended rating from the bar, Democratic leaders cannot slate him for the November 1982 election. Walsh, appointed December 1980, seeks a temporary restraining order with a Nov. 13 hearing set by Judge Reginald J. Holz.
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Chicago
Chicago Bar Association
Democratic Party
Alfred T. Walsh
Walsh
Cook County
The
Bar Association
Reginald J. Holzer
Vandalia Officer Cleared in Teen Shooting Death
Vandalia policeman Gene Dearlock was cleared by a Fayette County grand jury in the shooting death of 16 year old Phillip Boyd of Des Moines after a robbery and high speed chase. Boyd and three others were arrested following a car wreck near the Fayette County Courthouse. Dearlock testified he fired as Boyd reached for a gun.
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Fayette County
Iowa
Gene Dearlock
Phillip Boyd
Des Moines
Boyd
Dearlock
Grand Jury
Woman sues Von Trapp lodge over husband’s death
Judith Becker of Salem filed a 5 million dollar lawsuit in Vermont naming the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe as liable for her husband Ron Becker’s death in a December 20 1980 fire. The suit contends inadequate alarms and extinguishing systems and a missing escape route and supervision. Becker and another guest were injured as 50 guests fled into freezing weather in their nightwear.
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Salem
Vermont
Judith Becker
von Trapp
Stowe
Ron Becker
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