Legal Opinion
Duran v. TOWN OF CICERO, ILL.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 2011No. 08-2467, 08-2595PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
These appeals come to us following a complex jury trial in a lawsuit brought by scores of individual plaintiffs against 17 police officers and the Town of Cicero, Illinois, alleging federal civil-rights violations and various state-law torts. The claims arose out of an ugly confrontation between officers of the Cicero police force and nearly 100 partygoers — most of Mexican descent — who were celebrating a baptism at a Town of Cicero home. Responding to neighborhood complaints about the party, officers arrived on the scene and first attempted to quiet and later to…
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