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o D QR > oN » By Maurice Possley Lawyers for the families of two Black Panther Party |- members slain in 2 1969 po- lice raid soaght Thursday to in¢rease their damage suit ‘Claim to $71.7 million from $47 million. ¢ G. Flint Taylor Jr., lawyer } for the families of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, asked U.S. District Judge Mil- ton I, Shadur to allow them -to file an amended complaint seeking the additionei dam- “ages from the federal £0vern- ment,- . * Taylor also asked that—in addition to the Police cfticers involved in the raid ne cer- iain other county officials— - the FBI, the Department of dustlée, the estate of tre late | FBI chief J, Edcar Hoover, -and former U.S. Atrormey . General Jonn Mitchell be ecded as defendants, The suit stems from 4 pre- dawn raid on Dec, 4, 1£39, on a Black Penther Party enart- | ment at 2337 W. Monroe ja which Panther leaders Hamp- ton and Clark died from po- lice builets, The first trial ii the Case resulted in the longest civil trial in Chicago federal} court history, lasting 18 months. Presiding U.S. District Judge Joseph Sam Perry in 1$77 re. fused to allow the case to go to the jury and acquitted aj] Gefendants, including former State’s Attorney Edward vy. Hanrahan and a host of. Jaw enforcement officials, . . The U.S. Court of Appeals in April, 1$79, reinstated the svit and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decision Jast June. . The suit charges that Clark atid Hampton were deiiber- ately murdered in a conspir- acy involving Hanrahan’s, of- Tice, the Chicago Police De- Partment and the FBI, At the same time, the po- lice defendants jin the case asked Shadur, the newest judge to be appointed: to the federal court here, to step aside and Jet the case be as: | Signed to another judge, The defendants claimed Shadur is prejudiced because his former law Partner was a member of a -lawyer’s’ civil Tights ¢ommittee that once filed a friend-of-the-court brief against a nurnber of the dsiendants, Shadur said he wilt rule on both motions on Oct, 15, . £s Wrangling | on Panthers | begins anew | THE COMPLEX legal wrangling that has char- acterized the 10-year-old Black Panther civil tights ‘suit began anew in feder- ‘al court Thursday as the case was called for the ifirst time since it was re- ‘turned from the United . States Supreme Court for anew trial. | Lawyers for two slain Bleck Panthers, Mark Clark and fred Hampton, killed in the Dec. 4. 1969 police raid, sought to in- crease the amount of damages they are seeking from former State’s Atty. Edward V. Haurahan and i Chicago Linas $24 million to $71.7 million. ~ t the same time, law- _ for Hanrahan and other defendants asked the new judge assigned the case, District Judge Milton I. Shadur, to re- move himself from the ease because his former Jaw firm is a member Of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under ‘Law, which earlier filed a %& brief on behalf of...the ~ Panthers in the case. IN THE ORIGINAL civil ¢ 4 Prvegigk 2%) 9 ial, which lasted a rec- ord 18 months, ended in 1977 with a ruling by Dis- trict Judge Joseph Sam Perry in favor of Han- rahan and the police. In June, the Supreme Court upheld an earlier Appeais Court decision ordering a new trial. police- 43° b6 b7C b6 b7C SEARCHED =e SERIALIZED FILED GC Ht