Legal Opinion
Rashad Swanigan v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 2015No. 12-1261PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Rashad Swanigan was arrested and jailed for more than 50 hours by Chicago police officers who mistakenly thought he was a serial bank robber known as the Hard Hat Bandit. Following his release, Swanigan filed suit against a number of individual officers and the City alleging various constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and several state-law claims. After some procedural maneuvering, Swanigan’s Monell policy-or-practice claim against the City became a separate lawsuit, which was consolidated before the same judge and stayed while the suit against the individual…
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