SCLC/Rosa #654 — Leslie Wakat $15,000 verdict sits outside the 1957–59 filing cohort
SCLC Commission “zero plaintiff verdicts” in 42 suits filed July 1957–June 1959 does not erase Wakat’s May 31, 1957 award.
Wakat’s injury was in 1946; federal jury award against Chicago officers May 31, 1957 (before the filing cohort); Seventh Circuit affirmance 1958. Commission says concurrent §§1983/1985(3) judgments.
Original appellate docket unavailable here — court details attributed to the Commission. Cohort window ≠ all historical plaintiff success.
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