Legal Opinion
Lisa Williamson v. Mark Curran, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 4, 2013No. 09-3985PublishedCited by 632 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Lisa Williamson was arrested along with her husband Lance on a charge that they had stolen someone else’s horse. After being acquitted on the charge, Williamson filed suit against two Lake County, Illinois sheriffs deputies pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that they arrested her without probable cause in violation of the Fourth Amendment and deprived her of her Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection by arresting her based on nothing more (she contends) than her status as Lance’s wife. The district court dismissed both claims for failure to state a claim on…
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