The Honorable Colin S. Bruce in the Central District of Illinois granted summary judgment on a prisoner’s federal civil rights suit against Marshall County correctional officers in Seiler v. Kruse, et al., C.D. Ill. Case No. 17-cv-1370, (C.D. Ill. Feb. 28, 2019). Plaintiff Anthony Seiler, a pre-trial detainee, filed suit against two correctional officers for…
Read MoreThe Honorable Ronald J. Gerts in the County of Kankakee granted the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss on an Illinois Freedom of Information Act case in Sherrod v. Kankakee, et al., Case No. 2018 MR 302 (Kankakee Co. Cir. Ct. Mar. 15, 2019). Plaintiff, Antonio Sherrod, a federal prisoner filed suit for copies of thirteen-year old…
Read MoreDistrict Court Judge Philip Reinhard granted summary judgment in an employment discrimination case filed by a sergeant and a deputy following their involvement in a fatal police pursuit. Meagan and Ryan Pettengell, a married couple working for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office alleged they were discriminated against based on Meagan’s gender, Meagan’s pregnancy and their…
Read MoreIn January 2017, after being questioned by school officials and a school resource officer about possession of child pornography, 16-year-old Corey Walgren escaped a school office, left the campus, and fell to his death from the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Naperville. Walgren’s estate claimed the school officials and a school resource…
Read MoreThe Honorable Colin S. Bruce in the Central District of Illinois granted summary judgment on a federal civil rights lawsuit in favor of the Nursing Director of the Vermilion County Sheriff’s Department in Hamilton v. Harding Case No. 17-cv-2238 (C.D. Ill. February 11, 2019). Plaintiff, Carroll Hamilton a pre-trial detainee, alleged that his medical condition…
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