Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit May 8, 1998, 97-1904 (J. Fred Creek v. Village of Westhaven, Illinois Housing Development Authority, Village of Orland Park)

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a civil rights suit that has been before us previously, in 1996. See

Creek v. Village of Westhaven,

80 F.3d 186 (7th Cir.1996)

(“Creek

I”). At that time we stated that this case was “unfortunately protracted.” The dispute is now closing in on its sixteenth birthday, a landmark that no piece of litigation should reach.