Previously, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Manuel v. City of Joliet, et al., No. 14-9496 (3/21/2017), that pretrial detainees may challenge the legality of their pretrial detentions under the Fourth Amendment after a probable cause determination has been made. The Supreme Court left unresolved the issue of whether Manuel’s claims were barred by the…
Read MoreOn September 4, 2018, Judge Colin Bruce granted summary judgment in favor of Kankakee County and jail officials in Thompson v. Bukowski, et. al., No. 16-2390 (C.D. Ill. 9/4/2018). In Thompson, a jail inmate had complained that the jail had not provided him and other Muslim inmates with religious services at the jail but that…
Read MoreIn Miranda v. County of Lake, No. 17-1603 (7th Cir. Aug. 10, 2018), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals adopted a standard of “objective reasonableness” in assessing federal civil rights claims brought by pretrial detainees based on the adequacy of medical care in local jails. The Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause governs denial-of-medical-care claims…
Read MoreThe Honorable John Robert Blakey in the Northern District of Illinois granted a motion to dismiss in favor of two detectives and one commander of the Romeoville Police Department in DaJuan Key v. Masterson, al. Case No. 15-cv-9266 (N.D. Ill. August 14, 2018). Plaintiff, DaJuan Key, originally alleged that the search of his hotel room…
Read MoreWorld Outreach Center, a Christian religious organization, purchased former YMCA building in Chicago. The YMCW had operated as a legal non-conforming use as a community center and 168 single room occupancy units. According to City ordinance, the legal non-conforming use status ran with the land, and World Outreach only had to apply for licenses to…
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