Legal Opinion
Richman v. Sheahan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 7, 2008No. 07-1487PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Eighteen deputy sheriffs of Cook County, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violating the federal constitutional rights of the plaintiff, and of her son who died resisting arrest, appeal from the denial of their motion for summary judgment on grounds of official immunity. The district judge ruled that they had immunity from the Fourth Amendment claim on the son’s behalf, but not from the Eighth Amendment claim (which is solely on behalf of the son) or from the Fourth Amendment claim on the plaintiffs own behalf.
The case, before us for the second time, is very old. We ruled…
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