Joseph Dillon v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation

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• holding that the district court abused its discretion in failing to waive the requirement of bond of the defendant City of Chicago
• explaining that a judgment debtor “may move that the district court employ its discretion to waive the bond requirement”
• noting that the defendant presented evidence that the judgment would be satisfied from a fund of $484 million
• noting that district courts within the Ninth Circuit “regularly use these factors”
• waiving bond requirement because city had existing fund guaranteeing ap-pellee's judgment and procedure to process payment in less than thirty days
• articulating factors that courts 11 may consider when determining whether to waive Rule 62(b)’s bond requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).