In recent years, academics and the plaintiff’s bar have complained about the Supreme Court frequently reversing lower court decisions which have denied requests by police officers for qualified immunity. Last month, however, in Sause v. Bauer, No. 17-742 (June 28, 2018) the Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision which had granted qualified immunity to…
Read MoreIn Johnson v. Joliet Police Department and City of Joliet, 2018 IL App (3d) 170726, the plaintiff sought disciplinary records of a police officer through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The Police Department responded by explaining it had no records relating to citizen complaints against the officer and no disciplinary records less than…
Read MoreOn June 18, 2018, the Supreme Court decided Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 585 U. S. ____ (2018). In Lozman, a vocal critic of city officials owned a floating home in a marina in Riviera Beach, Florida. Over the course of his residency in the city, the resident often spoke during public comment during…
Read MoreEarlier this month, the Seventh Circuit considered an appeal in Broadfield v. McGrath pressed by officials of Livingston County that they were entitled to summary judgment in a case filed by a mentally ill inmate who claimed that he was not properly cared for when he had a mental breakdown in the Livingston County Jail. In…
Read MoreEarlier this month, Judge Sue Myerscough granted summary judgment in the Central District of Illinois in favor of all defendants in Longstreet v. Huffines. In that case, a jail inmate (Marcus Longstreet) claimed that the jail’s physician’s assistant and head nurse had not treated him for MRSA and that they had also prescribed unnecessary medications…
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