Legal Opinion
Mearday v. City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 28, 2002No. 00 C 1834PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
CASTILLO, District Judge.
This lawsuit involves the difficult issue of police misconduct. The plaintiff Jeremiah Mearday (“Mearday”) was the prior victim of an excessive police force incident which occurred on September 26, 1997, and which ultimately led to the dismissal of two police officers on March 12, 1998. This lawsuit, which was first filed in state court and removed to federal court, involves a subsequent incident between Chicago police officers and Mearday which occurred on March 19,1998. The action is brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Counts I, II and…
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