In Hosey v. City of Joliet, No. 17-MR-1334 (Will County), Plaintiff Joseph Hosey, a reporter, submitted a request to the City of Joliet under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for copies of videotaped interrogations of four criminal defendants involved in a 2013 double homicide. The City denied his request, and the Illinois Attorney General…
Read MoreJudge Sara Darrow in the Central District of Illinois granted summary judgment in favor of two nurses at the Vermilion County Jail in Danville, Illinois in Johnson v. Galloway, et al. Case No. 16-CV-02096 (C.D. Ill. Jan. 8, 2018). Plaintiff, a pre-trial detainee, alleged that two nurses at the Vermilion County Jail were deliberately indifferent…
Read MoreThe Seventh Circuit Appellate Court affirmed the District Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Sheriff, the Chief of Corrections and jail staff in Lipsey v. U.S.A., et al., No. 17-1063 (7th Cir. Jan. 4, 2018). The case was brought by a disabled minor, J.L., who was injured when her mother delivered while…
Read MoreU.S. District Court Judge James E. Shadid granted summary judgment in favor of the jail’s physician assistant in Perez v. Huffines, No. 16-cv-2343 (Jan. 16, 2018). Inmate Marco Perez claimed that his constitutional rights were violated when the physician assistant refused to provide or delayed in providing him with pain medications for lower back pain….
Read MoreThe First District Appellate Court upheld summary judgment in favor of defendant police officers in a malicious prosecution case, Burrell v. Village of Sauk Village, et al., 2017 IL App (1st) 163392. Plaintiff claimed that police did not have probable cause to arrest and prosecute him for the murder of his one-month-old niece after a…
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