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mt D 350 (Aev §-6-61) County C en er ete ee ere ae wren me “uy _ weet We Me Fonte Reed sovetty a ante ‘<: at Yeon TECROLANT aeRO RTC ce es xte Pata hohe White, tw Yawadets Wawa fae Mount Cicoing in Soace Betow) ce deaths settlement: By Tim Franklin and William B. Crawford Jr. . PAVING THE way for the end of an historic 18-year legal battle, the Cook y Board on Seare or & $1.85 ‘million settlement er, ih the 1969 Black Perther civil The settlement, believed to be th: the Jar. geste" ‘ever in a civil case, came after a ernment attorneys, the plaintiffs in the ease and Judge John FV Grady, of U.S. District Court, who kept of the negotiations secret. -erse stems from a’ om the Black Panther Party’s West oe headquarters in December, 1969, in which Panther leaders as Bred Ha mpton and Mark Ciark were shot to deat by Chicago police officers Edward Han rahan, who was tes County state’s attorney, . THE SETTLEMENT calls for the feder. al government, Cook County and the City ‘er Serer + ere s the federal, county and city overnments of what we have always ¢ ed and what the [U.S. 7th Circuit} Court ¢ ef Ap- peals in 1979 confirmed, and that fs there was a@ conspiracy between the | BI and former Cook County State's Atty. Edward Hanrahan and his people to murder Fred Ham n and Mark Clark and destroy the Panther Party.” Oaropton and Clatk were killed when police, carryir, warrants, raided the es to search for illegal weapons. Gunfire broke out, leaving Hampton and Clark dead and four other persons in the headquarters, . THE SETTLEMENT, coming just a month before the 18th anniversary of.the | raid, resulted from a suit accusing law enforcement agencies of violating the civil rights of Black Panther members. The lawsuit, which asked for $47.7 mil-. lion in damages, was filed in 1970 against . uding Hanrahan and 23 defendants, incl the city, county and federal governments, onday approved its . . Hampton sa Clark. t of negotiations between goy- Peon of Chicago to each pay $616,333 for & total of $1.85 million. The U.S. Justice Depart. ment reportedly has’ approved the settiemen , and cit perv is expected before the end of Nine platntitts’ will share th the award, ‘sources facluding . the mothers of The case is believed to bave cost tax. payers yers more thin $2 million in fees, much of which went to John Co » 8 criminal lawyer who worked on CASO for eight _ yeats until the county fired him last year. - John’ H. Stroger Jr., 2 county board member from the South Side, halled the settlement as a “victory from a legal , point of view" and said it ‘ends 12 years ' of agony” for those involved: ! G, FLINT TAYLOR JR., a lawyer for the Peoples Law Oifice, which worked on the case for many, yéars, said the settlement substantlates charges that there was a conspiracy to destroy the Black Panther Party. _ “The settlement ef a clear admission by It was filed on a behalf of the the survivors and the. relatives of those, k' Following ' A Teron mh taka In! -1 believed to be the longest federal Hy ever, Judge Joseph Sam of US District Court the suit against: dismissed 21 of the Gelendants without allowing the Case to to the fury, nm 1 After deadlocked in the liability ‘of the rematning defendants, Perry dismissed the case agaist, them, ‘Pudy vn In 1979, ow ‘Ghieage the Us. Court of ste cae, a. was appealed to tho Suprem court refused to , dismiss it and voted 5-3 to send it back to S. District Court for another Gris. ah t ‘ Panther (nceste page, name of P-1S.2 TRIBUNE Mewspener, chy and sate CHICAGO, ILL. Pete: 11=2-82 Eaton Chicago Final tee County OKs Perther deaths settlement