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Shakman, along with Paul M. Lurie, filed a class action suit claiming the Democratic Organization of Cook County was in violation of the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Shakman claimed that the defendants, a number of government employees and politicians, had violated the fundamental rights of a fair ...
They ran for various offices (city, county, state legislature), sometimes as Democrats in the primary election and sometimes as independents in the general election, but they almost always lost to the candidates endorsed by the Cook County Democratic slating committee. Shakman was a reform Democrat. He and the other plaintiffs objected to the ...
The result was a series of court-ordered reforms known as the Shakman decrees that banned political considerations in hiring and firing in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois government. More than ...
Shakman v. Democratic Organization of Cook County , a U.S. court case Shakman Decrees , a series of federal court orders about government employment in Chicago arising from the Shakman decision.
But attorney Michael Shakman, who brought the original anti-patronage case to court in 1969 and whose name became synonymous with hiring oversight in Cook County, said the Tribune’s findings ...
The federal-court appointed attorneys monitoring City of Chicago and Cook County compliance with the Shakman decrees, designed to prevent politics from influencing most personnel decisions, raised objections to as many as 27 hirings and firings in the first month of the Berrios administration of the Assessor's office.
Shakman was the only white candidate in the general election and received strong support only from majority-white Hyde Park. [19] Shakman accused her of being a machine candidate. [12] After the primary, Shakman filed a federal lawsuit that led to the Shakman Decrees, which reshaped the Illinois political landscape by restricting patronage ...
Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S. Lee was just the ...