Legal Opinion
Donald Tangwall v. Thomas Stuckey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 2, 1998No. 96-2960PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
In September of 1994, plaintiff-appellee, Donald Tangwall, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the defendant-appellant, Detective Thomas Stuckey, while acting as an employee of the DuPage County Sheriffs Department, arrested him without probable cause in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The complaint also set forth supplemental state claims of false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and wanton and willful conduct against Detective Stuckey, 1 as well as claimed that the County of DuPage was vicariously…
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