The Honorable Colin S. Bruce in the Central District of Illinois granted a motion to dismiss on a federal civil rights lawsuit in favor of the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Department and their Chief Deputy in Diane Redwitz v. County of Kankakee, et al, Case No. 18-CV-02208 (C.D. Ill. Sept. 17, 2019). Plaintiff, Diane Redwitz, was…
Read MoreIn DeJohnette v. Indiana U.S. Marshal Service, a federal inmate alleged that his constitutional rights were violated by the United States and Kankakee County when they allegedly failed to provide him with a CPAP machine while housed as a federal detainee at the Jerome Combs Detention Center. However, the Honorable Judge Sue Myerscough granted summary…
Read MoreAssistant principal sued school district under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that she was subjected to retaliation for speaking out about a student discipline issue in violation of her First Amendment rights, and that she was deprived of her due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when she was coerced to resign. The district court…
Read MoreA county correctional officer was sued by hospital patients who claimed they suffered from PTSD as a result of an inmate who escaped the officer’s custody while the officer was guarding the inmate following a surgery at the hospital. The officer had unshackled the inmate so he could use the bathroom. When the inmate emerged…
Read MoreA putative class of over 900 plaintiffs sued 20 municipal defendants, including the City of LaSalle, Illinois, LaSalle’s Chief of Police, and two of its police officers. The suit arose from the elected LaSalle County State’s Attorney’s unsuccessful attempt to create his own drug interdiction task force, known as SAFE, which disbanded in 2015 in…
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