Legal Opinion
Portis v. City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 9, 2008No. 02 C 3139PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ROBERT W. GETTLEMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Ronald Portis, Madric Lance and Emmett Lynch brought a second amended class action complaint against defendant City of Chicago 1 alleging that the City has a practice of unconstitutionally delaying release of persons arrested for non-jailable ordinance violations that are punishable by fine only. The court certified a class defined as:
All persons who, from May 1, 2000, through September 3, 2004, were arrested on ordinance violations which carry no jail time in the City of Chicago and who were detained for more than two…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Portis v. City of Chicago, Ill.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2010
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